{"id":153546,"date":"2022-12-24T23:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/software-lets-researchers-create-tiny-rounded-objects-out-of-dna-heres-why-thats-cool"},"modified":"2022-12-24T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:26:03","slug":"software-lets-researchers-create-tiny-rounded-objects-out-of-dna-heres-why-thats-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/software-lets-researchers-create-tiny-rounded-objects-out-of-dna-heres-why-thats-cool","title":{"rendered":"Software lets researchers create tiny rounded objects out of DNA. Here\u2019s why that\u2019s cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/software-lets-researchers-create-tiny-rounded-objects-out-of-dna-heres-why-thats-cool3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marvel at the tiny nanoscale structures emerging from research labs at Duke University and Arizona State University, and it\u2019s easy to imagine you\u2019re browsing a catalog of the world\u2019s smallest pottery.<\/p>\n<p>A new paper reveals some of the teams\u2019 creations: itty-bitty vases, bowls, and hollow spheres, one hidden inside the other, like housewares for a Russian nesting doll.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of making them from wood or clay, the researchers designed these objects out of threadlike molecules of DNA, bent and folded into complex three-dimensional objects with nanometer precision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel at the tiny nanoscale structures emerging from research labs at Duke University and Arizona State University, and it\u2019s easy to imagine you\u2019re browsing a catalog of the world\u2019s smallest pottery. A new paper reveals some of the teams\u2019 creations: itty-bitty vases, bowls, and hollow spheres, one hidden inside the other, like housewares for a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153546","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}