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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Researchers Create Self-Assembling Nanodevices that Move and Change Shape on Demand


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.'

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1 comment:

  1. Have you seen these nanodevices? Some look like little electrical creatures, a bit like in the Transformers movies.

    Anyway, the possibilities with nano devices mainly curing diseases such as cancer are great, but it's always good to look at these things holistically, probably because it can have positve and negative effects. I mean something that can cure cancer can also accelerate it. I mean look at his line "can be programmed to move and change shape on demand", this statement grabs my attention.

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