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Dielectrophoretic Stretching of DNA

Eva-Maria Laux1, Frank F Bier1,2, Ralph Hölzel3

  • 1IZI Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses (IZI-BB), Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|June 22, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Researchers demonstrate a new method to precisely align and stretch DNA molecules using radiofrequency electric fields. This technique is crucial for developing DNA-based nanostructures and studying single DNA molecules.

Keywords:
AlignmentDNADielectrophoresisElectrokineticsInterdigitated electrodesStretching

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