In biological systems, order typically emerges from out-of-equilibrium molecular processes that control both static patterns and dynamic changes. Now, the self-regulating assembly and disassembly of a synthetic system has been achieved on the micrometre scale, by coupling the growth of a DNA nanotube to a biochemical oscillator.
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Liedl, T. Clocking growth and collapse. Nat. Chem. 11, 497–499 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0275-0
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