Gold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies
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It's Only Blurry Because It's Magnified The world's smallest University of Michigan logo, magnified thousands of times. University of Michigan News Service Nano-thin sheets of metal can be used to...
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View ArticleGold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies
Gold is valuable to many in copious quantities, but for a team of Duke University scientists, a sub-cellular amount was all that was needed to create a nanostructure which…
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In the macro world, the construction shapes available to us are numerous, and the tools to build them are straightforward. But nanoarchitecture has always been much more…
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Nano-thin sheets of metal can be used to build a tiny high-definition display, according to University of Michigan researchers. They built a 9-micron-high image of their logo to prove it. The pixels...
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View ArticleGold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies
Science Scientists use genetic material to develop gold nanostructures that could report on a cell’s inner workings in real time Gold is valuable to many in copious quantities, but for a team of Duke...
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Science Scientists program DNA to fold in tightly controlled curves and circles—an important step toward building larger nanomachines. In the macro world, the construction shapes available to us are...
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Science Scientists are finally unspooling how spider silk works. Black widow silk fluid features nano-sized structures, researchers have found.
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