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DNA Scissors

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DNA Computing (DNA 2001)

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Designed strands of DNA were used to construct a nanomachine with the appearance of a pair of scissors. Further strands of DNA were then employed to close and reopen the handles of the scissors with resultant closing and reopening of the jaws with a change in angle of 10°. It was further shown that it is possible to open the handles wider than their equilibrium position, with resultant widening of the jaws.

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  1. James C. Mitchell

    Present address: Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK

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  1. Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974

    James C. Mitchell & Bernard Yurke

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler A. PHY 114, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Nataša Jonoska

  2. Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA

    Nadrian C. Seeman

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Mitchell, J.C., Yurke, B. (2002). DNA Scissors. In: Jonoska, N., Seeman, N.C. (eds) DNA Computing. DNA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48017-X_24

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