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Planting the Seed for DNA Nanoconstructs That Grow to the Micron Scale

2021-03-30

Planting the Seed for DNA Nanoconstructs That Grow to the Micron Scale

A team of nanobiotechnologists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) led by Wyss Founding Core Faculty member William Shih, Ph.D. has devised a programmable DNA self-assembly strategy that solves the key challenge of robust nucleation control and paves the way for applications such as ultrasensitive diagnostic biomarker...