I just wanted to share some recent developments I find relevant:
Two papers about interlocking DNA nanostructures:
researchgate.net/publication/2…es_for_Functional_Devices
nature.com/articles/ncomms12414
While still far from atomic resolution and still a little jelly floppy like this totally goes into the direction of stiff atomically precise nanorobotics.
I hope that will convince more people that macroscale style machinery actually makes perfectly sense in the nanoscale.
An image out of this paper made it into Wikipedia.
I think it's the first CC licensed image of 3D wiremesh DNA stuff on Wikipedia:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_origami_rotaxanes.jpg
Assuming the uploader "Materialscientist" was one of the creators (unlikely - comment to high res upload says "from PDF")
or had permission from the creators or the upload is tolerated which is not clear from what I find.
I'd love to use that image but as long as I'm not clear about the license I rather not.
On the microfluidics front there's a new website for open source R&D collaboration (created by MIT Media Lab).
metafluidics.org/
I see how this could notably accelerate progress if adopted by the subset of struct-DNA-nanotec (& other foldamer) researchers/developers.
Two papers about interlocking DNA nanostructures:
researchgate.net/publication/2…es_for_Functional_Devices
nature.com/articles/ncomms12414
While still far from atomic resolution and still a little jelly floppy like this totally goes into the direction of stiff atomically precise nanorobotics.
I hope that will convince more people that macroscale style machinery actually makes perfectly sense in the nanoscale.
An image out of this paper made it into Wikipedia.
I think it's the first CC licensed image of 3D wiremesh DNA stuff on Wikipedia:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_origami_rotaxanes.jpg
Assuming the uploader "Materialscientist" was one of the creators (unlikely - comment to high res upload says "from PDF")
or had permission from the creators or the upload is tolerated which is not clear from what I find.
I'd love to use that image but as long as I'm not clear about the license I rather not.
On the microfluidics front there's a new website for open source R&D collaboration (created by MIT Media Lab).
metafluidics.org/
I see how this could notably accelerate progress if adopted by the subset of struct-DNA-nanotec (& other foldamer) researchers/developers.