Scientists are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA nanostructures, enhancing their potential for applications in medicine, materials science and data storage. (Nanowerk News) ...

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

DNA thin films and nanostructures represent a versatile class of materials that exploit the inherent self-assembly, molecular recognition, and programmability of deoxyribonucleic acid. Over recent ...

DNA nanostructures are exciting new biomedical tools with myriad potential in treatment, diagnosis and disease prevention. Made of folded DNA, these nanostructures are highly programmable and have ...

DNA nanostructures assembled in ionic liquids instead of magnesium become stable in biological conditions and bind cancer-cell markers with higher precision. (Nanowerk News) DNA nanostructures are ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

DNA, the blueprint of life, is best known for its fundamental role as genetic material—storing and transmitting biological ...

To assemble these minuscule structures, researchers first create a scaffold: a long piece of single-stranded DNA with a carefully designed sequence of bases. Then they add hundreds of shorter DNA ...

Tokyo University of Science researchers have created optimized DNA hydrogels with possible biomedical uses by utilizing reduced Takumi-shaped DNA nanostructures. The study was published in the Journal ...

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.