If you want to print something a few inches tall, extruded plastic is a good medium. But when you need something at the nanometer scale, DNA is a better bet — but who has the time to design and ...

Researchers can build complex, nanometer-scale structures of almost any shape and form, using strands of DNA. But these particles must be designed by hand, in a complex and laborious process. This has ...

This week I'd like to share with you an interesting recent paper published in the journal Science. The topic of the paper is DNA origami, which as the name suggests is literally doing origami with ...

Researchers have developed a method to build tiny structures out of DNA based on 3-D polygonal shapes created with a computer. Researchers have developed a method to build tiny structures out of DNA ...

ASU researchers have expanded on the capabilities of DNA origami to construct arbitrary two- and three-dimensional shapes, mimicking those often found in nature. The research is featured in the April ...

This is a more detailed follow up to the original nextbigfuture article announcing the development of a method to grow DNA origami. This article discusses more ...

DNA origami is a technique used for the nanoscale folding of DNA to develop two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) shapes at a nanoscale range. No bigger than a virus, each of these ...

To study the behavior of T-cells, an unusual method was used: DNA molecules were folded in an ingenious way, similar to the paper folding art origami. In this way, not just a double helix is created, ...

At a scale of 1:200 trillion, Paul W. K. Rothemund's new map of the Americas won't help anyone trying to navigate a cross-country road trip. But the simple, universal design scheme that the California ...