By emulating nature’s design principles, a team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has created nanodevices made of DNA that self-assemble and can be programmed to move and change shape on demand. In contrast to existing nanotechnologies, these programmable nanodevices are highly suitable for medical applications because DNA is both biocompatible and biodegradable.
(via Edge of Tomorrow)
July 2, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Similar earlier work:
Tensegrity in a cell (2008)
Does Tensegrity Make the Machine Work? (2003)