DNA, a genetic material, has been employed in different scientific directions for various
biological applications as driven by DNA nanotechnology in the past decades, including …

Peptides have been extensively utilized to construct nanomaterials that display targeted
structure through hierarchical assembly. The self-assembly of both rationally designed …

The physicochemical nature of DNA allows the assembly of highly predictable structures via
several fabrication strategies, which have been applied to make breakthroughs in various …

Serving as the basis of cell life, interactions between nucleic acids and proteins play
essential roles in fundamental cellular processes. Aptamers are unique single-stranded …

The cytoskeleton is an essential component of a cell. It controls the cell shape, establishes
the internal organization, and performs vital biological functions. Building synthetic …

DNA nanotechnology has now enabled the self-assembly of almost any prescribed 3-
dimensional nanoscale structure in large numbers and with high fidelity. These structures …

DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional
protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into …

DNA, when folded into nanostructures with a specific shape, is capable of spacing and
arranging binding sites into a complex geometric pattern with nanometre precision. Here we …

We describe a simple and robust method to construct complex three-dimensional (3D)
structures by using short synthetic DNA strands that we call “DNA bricks.” In one-step …