The design and engineering of nucleic acid nanoscale assemblies

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 519-526

  Seeman, Nadrian C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

DNA STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030220762     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(96)80118-7     Document Type: Article

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