{"id":182195,"date":"2024-02-07T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/building-a-dna-nanoparticle-to-be-both-carrier-and-medicine"},"modified":"2024-02-07T08:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:24:45","slug":"building-a-dna-nanoparticle-to-be-both-carrier-and-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/building-a-dna-nanoparticle-to-be-both-carrier-and-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Building a DNA nanoparticle to be both carrier and medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-a-dna-nanoparticle-to-be-both-carrier-and-medicine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been making nanoparticles out of DNA strands for two decades, manipulating the bonds that maintain DNA\u2019s double-helical shape to sculpt self-assembling structures that could someday have jaw-dropping medical applications.<\/p>\n<p>The study of DNA <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanoparticles<\/a>, however, has focused mostly on their architecture, turning the genetic code of life into components for fabricating minuscule robots. A pair of Iowa State University researchers in the genetics, development, and cell biology department\u2014professor Eric Henderson and recent doctoral graduate Chang-Yong Oh\u2014hope to change that by showing nanoscale materials made of DNA can convey their built-in genetic instructions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, most people have been exploring DNA nanoparticles from an engineering perspective. Little attention has been paid to the information held in those DNA strands,\u201d Oh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been making nanoparticles out of DNA strands for two decades, manipulating the bonds that maintain DNA\u2019s double-helical shape to sculpt self-assembling structures that could someday have jaw-dropping medical applications. The study of DNA nanoparticles, however, has focused mostly on their architecture, turning the genetic code of life into components for fabricating minuscule robots. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182195","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}