{"id":17006,"date":"2015-09-08T17:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T00:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/lipid-dna-origami-may-lead-to-advanced-future-nanomachines"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:11","slug":"lipid-dna-origami-may-lead-to-advanced-future-nanomachines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/lipid-dna-origami-may-lead-to-advanced-future-nanomachines","title":{"rendered":"Lipid DNA origami may lead to advanced future nanomachines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lipid-dna-origami-may-lead-to-advanced-future-nanomachines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Using a double layer of lipids facilitates assembly of DNA origami nanostructures, bringing us one step closer to future DNA nanomachines, as in this artist\u2019s impression (credit: Kyoto University\u2019s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/e\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kyoto University<\/a> scientists in Japan have developed a method for creating larger 2-D self-assembling DNA origami nanostructures.<\/p>\n<p>Current DNA origami methods can create extremely small two- and three-dimensional shapes that could be used as construction material to build nanodevices, such as nanomotors, in the future for targeted drug delivery inside the body, for example. <em>KurzweilAI<\/em> recently covered advanced methods developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/creating-complex-structures-using-dna-origami-and-nanoparticles\" target=\"_blank\">Brookhaven National Laboratory<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/biodesign.asu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona State University\u2019s Biodesign Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/lipid-dna-origami-may-lead-to-advanced-future-nanomachines\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a double layer of lipids facilitates assembly of DNA origami nanostructures, bringing us one step closer to future DNA nanomachines, as in this artist\u2019s impression (credit: Kyoto University\u2019s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences) Kyoto University scientists in Japan have developed a method for creating larger 2-D self-assembling DNA origami nanostructures. Current DNA origami methods [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69615,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions\/69615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}