{"id":201628,"date":"2024-12-14T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/velcro-dna-origami-helps-build-nanorobotic-meccano"},"modified":"2024-12-14T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T19:11:26","slug":"velcro-dna-origami-helps-build-nanorobotic-meccano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/velcro-dna-origami-helps-build-nanorobotic-meccano","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Velcro\u2019 DNA origami helps build nanorobotic Meccano"},"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\/oBFBc9aH8v4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/nano\/\">University of Sydney Nano Institute<\/a> have made a significant advance in the field of molecular robotics by developing custom-designed and programmable nanostructures using DNA origami.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative approach has potential across a range of applications, from targeted drug delivery systems to responsive materials and energy-efficient optical signal processing. The method uses \u2018DNA origami\u2019, so-called as it uses the natural folding power of DNA, the building blocks of human life, to create new and useful biological structures.<\/p>\n<p>As a proof-of-concept, the researchers made more than 50 nanoscale objects, including a \u2018nano-dinosaur\u2019, a \u2018dancing robot\u2019 and a mini-Australia that is 150 nanometres wide, a thousand times narrower than a human hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have made a significant advance in the field of molecular robotics by developing custom-designed and programmable nanostructures using DNA origami. This innovative approach has potential across a range of applications, from targeted drug delivery systems to responsive materials and energy-efficient optical signal processing. The method uses \u2018DNA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201628","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}