DNA origami: The shape of things to come

Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 18:00 in Physics & Chemistry

By Tia GhoseLiveScienceScientists have bent DNA into bizarre, basket-woven shapes, from spheres to corkscrews.The new DNA origami, described Thursday in the journal Science, is one of the first steps in designing tiny nano-robots that could carry medicines or repair cells in the body."These are just the basic elements for device construction," study co-author Dongran Han, a chemistry doctoral cand...

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