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Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...

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Abstract: Although the classical B-tree and its derivatives are space efficient data structures for small string documents, they require many structures and an excessive amount of pointer ...