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The world’s smallest Mona Lisa is made from DNA

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Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa painting isnt actually that big (30 inches tall), but Caltech researchers have found a way to make that seem downright gargantuan. Theyve used DNA to construct the smallest known Mona Lisa. At several hundred nanometers across, theyre roughly as large as a lone E. coli bacterium — the iconic smile is just 100nm wide. The trick was an adaptation of a DNA origami method that got the gene strands to fold and assemble into the right shape.
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