{"id":167790,"date":"2023-07-19T08:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-craft-origami-dna-to-control-virus-assembly"},"modified":"2023-07-19T08:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:23:33","slug":"researchers-craft-origami-dna-to-control-virus-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-craft-origami-dna-to-control-virus-assembly","title":{"rendered":"Researchers craft \u2018origami DNA\u2019 to control virus assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-craft-origami-dna-to-control-virus-assembly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griffith University researchers have played a key role in using DNA \u201corigami\u201d templates to control the way viruses are assembled.<\/p>\n<p>The global team behind the research, titled \u201cDNA-origami-directed virus capsid polymorphism,\u201d published in <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>, developed a way to direct the assembly of virus capsids\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> shell of viruses\u2014at physiological conditions in a precise and programmable manner.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Frank Sainsbury and Dr. Donna McNeale from the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery were part of the research team and said forcing viruses to assemble onto DNA folded into different shapes \u201clike origami\u201d was a question that this project answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffith University researchers have played a key role in using DNA \u201corigami\u201d templates to control the way viruses are assembled. The global team behind the research, titled \u201cDNA-origami-directed virus capsid polymorphism,\u201d published in Nature Nanotechnology, developed a way to direct the assembly of virus capsids\u2014the protein shell of viruses\u2014at physiological conditions in a precise and [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167790","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=167790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}