{"id":150715,"date":"2022-11-21T17:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T23:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/dna-nanobots-build-themselves-how-can-we-help-them-grow-the-right-way"},"modified":"2022-11-21T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T23:25:22","slug":"dna-nanobots-build-themselves-how-can-we-help-them-grow-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/dna-nanobots-build-themselves-how-can-we-help-them-grow-the-right-way","title":{"rendered":"DNA nanobots build themselves: How can we help them grow the right way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6IwZXa6GIgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>UNSW researchers have overcome a major design challenge on the path to controlling the dimensions of so-called DNA nanobots\u2014structures that assemble themselves from DNA components.<\/p>\n<p>Self-assembling nanorobots may sound like science fiction, but new research in DNA nanotechnology has brought them a step closer to reality. Future nanobot use cases won\u2019t just play out on the tiny scale, but include larger applications in the health and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical field<\/a>, such as wound healing and unclogging of arteries.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from UNSW, with colleagues in the UK, have published a new design theory in <i>ACS Nano<\/i> on how to control the length of self-assembling nanobots in the absence of a mould, or template.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 face_with_colon_three UNSW researchers have overcome a major design challenge on the path to controlling the dimensions of so-called DNA nanobots\u2014structures that assemble themselves from DNA components. Self-assembling nanorobots may sound like science fiction, but new research in DNA nanotechnology has brought them a step closer to reality. Future nanobot use cases won\u2019t just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150715","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}