科学英语：DNA分子未来可用于培养组织与器官.docxVIP

DNA1 molecules2 provide the source code for life in humans, plants, animals and some microbes. But now researchers report an initial study showing that the strands3 can also act as a glue to hold together 3-D-printed materials that could someday be used to grow tissues and organs in the lab. This first-of-its-kind demonstration4 of the inexpensive process is described in the brand-new journal ACS Biomaterials Science Engineering. Andrew Ellington and colleagues explain that although researchers have used nucleic acids such as DNA to assemble objects, most of these are nano-sized -- so tiny th