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Researchers Turn Viruses Into Molecular Legos
October 19, 2011
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University of California, Berkeley, researchers have turned a benign virus into building blocks for assembling structures that mimic collagen, one of the most important structural proteins in nature. The "self-templating assembly" process they developed could eventually be used to manufacture materials with tunable optical, biomedical and mechanical properties.
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University of California, Berkeley
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