DNA nanotechnology has become an intense research field, with hundreds of research labs engaged in it, based on the idea that DNA can be used as a programmable structural material for the creation of ...

DNA nanotechnology involves the development of synthetic DNA genomes. Owing to their unique chemical and structural properties, DNA is used as programmable material for the controlled synthesis of ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...

Similarly to the artistic technique of folding paper into ornate shapes, DNA origami is a self-assembling technique of precisely folding single-stranded DNA scaffolds into well-defined nanostructures.

High-throughput (HTP) combinatorial methodologies—which include microarrays, lab-on-a-chip systems, microfluidics, parallel pipetting, or robotic-assisted methodologies—are essential to accelerate ...

Researchers have achieved 32 different–shaped crystal structures using the DNA–brick self–assembly method.Credit: Harvard's Wyss Institute DNA has garnered attention for its potential as a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A multidisciplinary team of pharmaceutics and computer-science researchers at the University at Buffalo, one of very few teams in the nation applying DNA microarray technology in ...

Advances in nanotechnology have made it possible to fabricate structures out of DNA for use in biomedical applications like delivering drugs or creating vaccines, but new research in mice investigates ...

Researchers explore a basic building block used in the fabrication of many DNA nanoforms. Known as a Holliday junction, this nexus of two segments of double stranded DNA has been used to form ...

How Does DNA Origami Work? The creation of a specific nanostructure starts with its design, often utilizing advanced computational tools. A long, viral-origin scaffold strand of DNA is manipulated by ...