Diatom-like nanostructures created using base-pairing properties of DNA

A team of researchers designed a range of diatom-like nanostructures, using base-pairing properties of DNA to construct tiny structures that accumulated a silica outer skeleton similar to shell-building organisms known as diatoms. [Research supported by National Science Foundation grant DMR ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item.
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