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Someday, doctors could introduce DNA nanostructures to the human body to diagnose diseases or deliver medications. But first, they must find a way to protect or repair the molecules when enzymes called nucleases degrade them. Researchers have now developed a self-repair process that could substantially extend the lifetime of DNA nanostructures.
