Similar to how bricks can come in different shapes and sizes, so can motifs and tiles. Creating these structural motifs and understanding their properties is the foundation of DNA nanotechnology ...

The structure of DNA is widely accepted to exist as a double helix, but different DNA structures also exist. New research points to a range of triggers that can manipulate its shape.

The shape of DNA can be manipulated to create tiny machines and computers, and scientists have discovered a range of new “triggers” to control this process.

The new trend is DNA in circles, pentagons, dodecahedrons, or any number of other shapes. Mark Bathe at MIT has been working with computer simulations of DNA pairings that will predict the ...

Mysterious protein makes human DNA morph into different shapes. News. By Cameron Duke published 3 June 2021 Human and mosquito cell nuclei have their own shapes, ...

Doughnuts are a different beast, however: Turning an orb into a ring requires slicing a hole in it or sticking its ends together, making them two fundamentally different shapes.

DNA, that marvelous, twisty molecule of life, has an alter ego, research reveals. On rare occasions, its building blocks "rock and roll," deforming the familiar double helix into a different shape.

DNA origami is a design technique that is used by nanotechnology researchers to fold DNA strands into something resembling a programmable pegboard on which different nanocomponents can be attached.

A robust, versatile, one-pot bottom-up nanotechnology fabrication method uses a few-hundred short DNA strands to 'staple' a very long strand into two-dimensional structures of 100 nm in diameter ...

DNA is readily available from natural sources and is easily manipulated into different shapes, from the narrow ribbons required here to elaborate 3D architectures dubbed “DNA origami.” ...