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NIPBL protein exchange on cohesin changes the DNA-loop extrusion direction


NIPBL protein exchange on cohesin changes the DNA-loop extrusion direction


CTCF and cohesin on DNA


CTCF and cohesin on DNA


Andy Warhole style rendering of cell division by DynaminA proteins


A DNA origami nanoturbine in a nanopore


A DNA origami nanoturbine in a nanopore


An SMC protein (blue) can put huge DNA roadblocks (orange) into an extruded DNA loop (white)


Motion of our flow-driven DNA rotor


A flow-driven DNA rotor


Reading a single protein with a nanopore


Reading a single protein with a nanopore


The NEOtrap where a single protein is held in a nanopore that is capped with a DNA origami sphere


The NEOtrap where a single protein is held in a nanopore that is capped with a DNA origami sphere


The NEOtrap where a single protein is held in a nanopore that is capped with a DNA origami sphere


Condensin motor protein extruding a loop of DNA


Condensin extruding a loop of DNA


DNA traversing a solid state nanopore


Bacteria in a nanoslit


Bacteria in a nanoslit


Insertion of α-hemolysin into solid-state nanopores


Mechanism of homology recognition in DNA recombination from dual-molecule experiments


DNA translocating through graphene


Dynamics of DNA Supercoils


Microtubules moving acorss molelcular motor proteins in a nanochannel


Nanopore fabrication by TEM


DNA repair proteins tether broken ends


Rad50 DNA repair proteins


E. coli bacterium


DNA molecule through a nanopore


Topoisomerase protein


Topoisomearse protein reducing torsional stress of DNA


Homologous recombination


Looped DNA molecule between a bead and a surface


Rad50 DNA repair proteins


Biomimetic Nuclear Pore Complexes


DNA molecule through a nanopore


AFM image of a DNA molecule


Kinked carbon nanotube between electrodes


Carbon nanotube with a bend


Electronic wavefunctions of carbon nanotubes


Metal nanoparticle between electrodes


Igniting phonons in a carbon nanotube


Single carbon nanotube molecule across metal electrodes


STM image of a carbon nanotube


Carbon nanotube with a PNA molecule attached


DNA molecule between two electrodes


Carbon nanotube kink


Carbon nanotube between electrodes


Carbon nanotube as a biosensor
