Direct microscopy imaging reveals details in DNA origami nanostructures

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(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have demonstrated that it is possible to see greater details of DNA origami nanostructures. DNA origami is the folding of long "scaffold" strands of circular DNA molecules held together using short "staple" strands to create various two- and three-dimensional shapes at the nanometer scale.