DNA, the medium of life, is so deeply associated with the biochemical world that considering its nonbiological applications may seem far-fetched. However, for researchers in the 1980s and 1990s ...

DNA origami and beyond. A) DNA octahedron that inspired development of DNA origami. B) 2D DNA origami (smiley face serves as an example). C) Hollow 3D DNA origami shapes that are folded from 2D ...

Essentially, DNA origami enables long strands of DNA to fold, through self-assembly, into any desired shape. (In the 2006 ...

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The world's tiniest smiley faces measuring a few billionths of a metre across have been created by folding strands of DNA like origami. The feat was accomplished after Paul Rothemund at the California ...

DNA and origami: there are two words you never thought you would see together. But they have indeed come together and they promise to revolutionise nanotechnology, the science of things that are ...

Chemists looking to create complex self-assembling nanostructures are turning to DNA. Katharine Sanderson looks at the science beneath the fold. You have full access to this article via your ...