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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2012 Nov 27;16(0):581–585. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.11.004

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Is this crystal beautiful? It is a product of a design DNA molecule constructed from artificially expanded genetic alphabets, components shown in Figure 2, to form three dimensional symmetric structures. However, the real reason we regarded as beautiful as because it captures the colors that early hominid brains became involved to detect. Image courtesy of Ned Seeman.