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These images show some of the shapes formed of RNA in the lab of Purdue's Peixuan Guo. The first three abstract shapes – monomers, dimers and trimers – are further illustrated with the analogy of human figures grasping each others' arms (see inset illustrations in figures A, B and C). Guo's team has found a way to make these elementary shapes form more complex, 3-D structures such as the array in figure D. Such arrays might form tiny scaffolding on which to construct nanotech devices.
(Purdue University graphic/Guo Laboratories)
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