During a demonstration at WPI's robotics lab, Conrad, who along with postdoctoral student Shou-Shan Chiang has been one of the key figures behind the project, said that the origami structure gives ...

She uses the technique of RNA origami, which is based on the idea that genetic information—the blueprint for the cell ...

Rothemund’s DNA origami consisted of two main components: a long, single-stranded piece of bacteriophage DNA, which serves as the scaffold material, and a bunch of shorter strands of oligonucleotides, ...

DNA is a super flexible and modular structure, meaning that with the right sequences, scientists can use it to create a vast array of structures of different shapes and sizes. The term DNA origami was ...

In the new work, Rothemund and his colleagues used DNA origami to create a lilypad-like structure -- a flat, circular surface about 100 nanometers in diameter, tethered by a DNA linker to a gold ...

Researchers used a folding pattern known as Kresling origami to create a flexible, modular structure, which allowed them to build a 240-millimeter-long robotic arm composed of four connected segments.