{"id":72533,"date":"2017-09-14T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/a-dna-nanorobot-is-programmed-to-pick-up-and-sort-molecules-into-predefined-regions"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:00:19","slug":"a-dna-nanorobot-is-programmed-to-pick-up-and-sort-molecules-into-predefined-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/a-dna-nanorobot-is-programmed-to-pick-up-and-sort-molecules-into-predefined-regions","title":{"rendered":"A DNA nanorobot is programmed to pick up and sort molecules into predefined regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-dna-nanorobot-is-programmed-to-pick-up-and-sort-molecules-into-predefined-regions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a robot that could help you tidy your home: roving about, sorting stray socks into the laundry and dirty dishes into the dishwasher. While such a practical helper may still be the stuff of science fiction, Caltech scientists have developed an autonomous molecular machine that can perform similar tasks\u2014at the nanoscale. This \u201crobot,\u201d made of a single strand of DNA, can autonomously \u201cwalk\u201d around a surface, pick up certain molecules and drop them off in designated locations.<\/p>\n<p>The work was done in the laboratory of Lulu Qian, assistant professor of bioengineering. It appears in a paper in the September 15 issue of <i>Science<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Why Nanobots?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017-09-dna-nanorobot-molecules-predefined-regions.html\">https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;09-dna-nanorobot-molecules-...gions.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a robot that could help you tidy your home: roving about, sorting stray socks into the laundry and dirty dishes into the dishwasher. While such a practical helper may still be the stuff of science fiction, Caltech scientists have developed an autonomous molecular machine that can perform similar tasks\u2014at the nanoscale. This \u201crobot,\u201d made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72533","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72551,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72533\/revisions\/72551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}