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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 28, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the field of DNA nanotechnology has used the unique molecular recognition properties of DNA to construct two-dimensional lattices, nanomechanical devices, computers, polyhedra, and even a smiley face out of DNA?
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Doing the synopsis for the Signpost, I must admit I can't really get past the introduction. Perhaps I lack the context for this, but I must say that an Introduction to DNA nanotechnology article may be a good idea, similar to Introduction to evolution. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:01, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go give the synopsis a look. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 17:25, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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-At some point you might want to connect with David Bell in the Nanostructures lab at Harvard inre his direct TEM imaging of DNA using high Z (visible) labels. Relevant IMHO to the subject of this article. I'll probably be at the June 15th Wikipedia meeting at the Grafton Pub. if you want to chat about it.  Frank Ferguson - fferguson@aol.com [[User:Frankatca|Frankatca]] ([[User talk:Frankatca|talk]]) 21:15, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
-==George Church and DNA nanotechnology==
-Discuss:
-http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/pers.html http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/DNAlat2.JPG http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/DNA_lattice.JPG  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/65.96.114.149|65.96.114.149]] ([[User talk:65.96.114.149|talk]]) 02:11, 9 December 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-:Okay.  I had removed the following sentences from the beginning of the History section: "The concept of building lattices out of DNA strands is attributed to [[George Church]] in 1977.  <nowiki><ref></nowiki>'''History:''' See George Church's homepage,  [http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/pers.html] [http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/DNA_lattice.JPG] [http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/DNAlat2.JPG]<nowiki></ref></nowiki>  Church shared his ideas with crystallographers, including [[Nadrian Seeman]]."
-:My concern is that the cited references are essentially personal correspondence which is hosted on George Church's personal website, which makes this a primary source.  Wikipedia's policies depreciate primary sources in favor of secondary sources published by reliable third parties (see [[WP:PRIMARY]], but also see [[WP:SELFPUB]] for a possible counterpoint).
-:There is certainly room for more details on the discussions leading to Seeman's original work, as long as it is verifiable.  If there is a published secondary source about George Church's involvement in the beginnings of DNA nanotechnology, we can absolutely add that.  (As a contrast, it is permissible to state here that Seeman "invented" DNA nanotechnology because that is the exact word used in the cited source, a monograph by a third party.)  It may also be permissible to say something like "The concept of DNA nanotechnology was invented by Nadrian Seeman in the early 1980s,[1] although similar ideas had been proposed prior to that.[2]"  Let me know what you think.  [[User:Antony-22|Antony&ndash;'''''22''''']] (<sup>[[User talk:Antony-22|talk]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Antony-22|contribs]]</sub>) 03:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
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