Sewing DNA thread with lasers, hooks and microbobbins

Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 06:14 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a unique way to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them.

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