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Designing a Bio-responsive Robot from DNA Origami
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Designing a Bio-responsive Robot from DNA Origami

Published on: July 8, 2013

Letter: Reversibility and biological machines

A E Hill

    Nature
    |September 4, 1975
    PubMed
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