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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

DNA Origami: Art into Action!


If you thought origami refers to the art of folding paper, it is time revise your vocabulary! Scientists have been, for quite sometime now, able to fold/construct various shapes with DNA. For some interesting pictures click here. And now, scientists have been able to put this 'art' into 'action'!

'Nanorobots' made out of DNA have been successfully targeted to kill cancer cells! This study, by Prof. Church at Harvard Medical School, has been reported in the latest issue of Science.

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