Programming biomolecular self-assembly pathways

By Peng Yin, Harry M. T. Choi, C. R. Calvert, Niles A. Pierce. Nature, 2008

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Programming an in vitro DNA oscillator using a molecular networking strategy (2011, positive): “This has been used to create spatial static structures at the nanometre scale (Seeman, 2003; Rothemund, 2006), as well as chemical (Yin et al , 2008; Soloveichik et al , 2010) and biochemical (Bath et al , 2005; Win et al , 2009) machines.”
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