To study the behavior of T-cells, an unusual method was used: DNA molecules were folded in an ingenious way, similar to the paper folding art origami. In this way, not just a double helix is created, ...

Three DNA origami templates were designed so that quantum dots would arrange themselves (a) in the corners, (b) diagonally (three dots), and (c) in a line (four dots). NIST researchers found that ...

Validating and testing a fluorescence microscope or a microscopy method requires defined samples that can be used as standards. DNA origami is a new tool that provides a framework to place defined ...

Point the finger: Zinc-finger proteins are convenient and site-selective adaptors for targeting specific locations within DNA-origami structures. Orthogonal targeting of the specific locations in the ...

5pm WSH Memorial Room Origami Club is teaching how to fold the Umulius Impossible Rectangle. We teach step by step with videos and live expert origami officers. The event is free and everyone is ...

T-cells are an important component of our immune system: with the receptors they carry on their surface, they can recognise highly specific antigens. Upon detection of an intruder, an immune response ...

Nanoscopic DNA chips assembled using the DNA origami method enable target detection in solution and hold promise for single-cell gene expression analysis. In 2006 Paul Rothemund of the California ...