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February 5, 2016 12:00 am
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DNA Makes Lifeless Materials Shapeshift
sciencehabit writes: Researchers have engineered tiny gold particles that can assemble into a variety of crystalline structures simply by adding a bit of DNA to the solution that surrounds them. Down the road, such reprogrammable particles could be used to make materials that reshape themselves in response to light, or to create novel catalysts that reshape themselves as reactions proceed.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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