DNA nanotechnology workshop: Unnatural assemblies
I’m just back from Shanghai, where I attended the 2nd DNA nanotechnology workshop, a very exciting meeting at which we also celebrated the prestigious Albert Einstein professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences being awarded to Ned Seeman, often called ‘the father of DNA nanotechnology’. The story goes that as a young crystallographer, worried about getting tenure, he went to the campus bar to have a few beers and mull things over. Seeman found inspiration in the Escher woodcut Depth to make crystals using DNA, so as to avoid the guessing game (and potentially praying) that everyone who ever tried to crystallize anything is only too familiar with. The rest, as they say, is DNA nanotechnology. Read more
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