{"id":134333,"date":"2022-01-19T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/scientists-accidentally-made-pac-man-ghosts-out-of-dna-origami"},"modified":"2022-01-19T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:24:12","slug":"scientists-accidentally-made-pac-man-ghosts-out-of-dna-origami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/scientists-accidentally-made-pac-man-ghosts-out-of-dna-origami","title":{"rendered":"Scientists accidentally made Pac-man ghosts out of DNA Origami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-accidentally-made-pac-man-ghosts-out-of-dna-origami2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boing Boing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I don\u2019t entirely understand what this means, but here\u2019s how they explained it in an upcoming scientific paper from the journal of <em data-amp-original- class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.01.06.475243v1\" class=\"\">Biology<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Using a library of ~2000 strands [of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA_origami\" class=\"\">DNA origami<\/a>] that can be combinatorially assembled to yield any of ~1e48 distinct DNA origami slats, we realize five-gigadalton structures composed of 1,000 uniquely addressable slats, and periodic structures incorporating 10,000 slats. Thus crisscross growth provides a generalizable route for prototyping and scalable production of devices integrating thousands of unique components that each are sophisticated and molecularly precise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, so I <em data-amp-original- class=\"\">still<\/em> don\u2019t totally understand what that means. But I did see this tweet from the lead author on the paper:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boing Boing. I don\u2019t entirely understand what this means, but here\u2019s how they explained it in an upcoming scientific paper from the journal of Biology: Using a library of ~2000 strands [of DNA origami] that can be combinatorially assembled to yield any of ~1e48 distinct DNA origami slats, we realize five-gigadalton structures composed of 1,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}