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Researchers Report Largest DNA Origami To Date
MTorrice (2611475) writes Bioengineers can harness DNA's remarkable ability to self-assemble to build two- and three-dimensional nanostructures through DNA origami. Until now, researchers using this approach have been limited to building structures that are tens of square nanometers in size. Now a team reports the largest individual DNA origami structures to date, which reach sizes of hundreds of square nanometers. What's more, they have developed a less expensive way to synthesize the DNA strands needed, overcoming a tremendous obstacle to scaling up the technology.
If you would bother to read before shooting off your mouth you'd see that there are plenty of potential applications. It's not just being done for the 'cool' factor.
Technology doesn't just magically appear. It is worthwhile research that if it pans out could have some really wide ranging medical applications.
If you're going to claim that 'DNA has been shown to be magnetoresponsive', you might consider offering links that have at least something to do with DNA. It might also help to not post utter crap about Earth's magnetosphere having a 'magnetic harmonic', let alone 'at the same frequency as the resonance demonstrated by DNA'.
It doesn't self-assemble by magnetism, it self-assembles by hybridizing, Basically complementary bits of DNA pair up, and they like pairing up with complementary bits more then they like having the traditional double helix shape, so you can sort of weave with them.
Given that the Schumann resonances have peak amplitudes of a few picoteslas, it seems highly unlikely that they affect DNA assembly.
"Magnetic harmonic?" "DNA resonance frequency?" Nice try. You know, people here aren't stupid.
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