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Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pave the way for solid-state, label-free DNA sequencing technologies with implications for precision medicine.

The software relies on a way to build with DNA described in 2011 by Yan, who was a postdoc with Reif at Duke 20 years ago before joining the faculty at Arizona State. It works by coiling a long DNA ...

Base-stacking is not well-studied in double-stranded DNA. Credit: KTSDESIGN/SPL/Getty Images Researchers have provided new insights into how bases in a single DNA strand stack on top of each other 1.

Patterned DNA nanostructures (cyan) as imaged using DNA-PAINT super-resolution technique enabled for studying strength of base-stacking interactions (pink). (Credit: Abhinav Banerjee) The stability of ...