Shape Fluctuations in DNA gold Nanostructures

These views compare the various shape fluctuations obtained from different samples of the same type of doublehelix DNA segment (DNA renderings in green, 3D reconstructions in purple) connected to gold nanoparticles (yellow). Full story Credit: Lei Zhang, Dongsheng Lei, Jessica M. Smith, Meng Zhang, Huimin Tong, Xing Zhang, Zhuoyang Lu, Jiankang Liu, A. Paul Alivisatos Gang Gary Ren