Hey hey hey hey, it was the DNA
The investigation of the emergence of spatial patterning in the density profiles of the individual elements of multicomponent systems was perhaps first popularised in a biophysical context by Turing’s work on embryogenesis in 1952. How molecular-scale properties transpire to produce patterns at larg...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2016-01-01
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| Series: | New Journal of Physics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/051002 |
| Summary: | The investigation of the emergence of spatial patterning in the density profiles of the individual elements of multicomponent systems was perhaps first popularised in a biophysical context by Turing’s work on embryogenesis in 1952. How molecular-scale properties transpire to produce patterns at larger scales continues to fascinate today. Now a model DNA–nanotube system, whose assemblies have been reported recently by Glaser et al (2016 New J. Phys. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/055001 18 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/055001 ), promises to reveal insights by allowing the mechanical properties of the underlying macromolecular entities to be controlled independently of their chemical nature. |
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| ISSN: | 1367-2630 |