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A nanomachine goes live

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A DNA-based device can act as a pH sensor inside living cells.

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Figure 1: A pH-sensitive DNA nanomachine.

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  1. Yuji Ishitsuka and Taekjip Ha are at the Department of Physics and Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. tjha@illinois.edu,

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