Over the past decade, we have seen rapid advances in applying nanotechnology in
biomedical areas including bioimaging, biodetection, and drug delivery. As an emerging …

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 …

Metal ions are essential to many chemical, biological, and environmental processes. In the
past two decades, many DNA-based metal sensors have emerged. While the main …

In nature, DNA molecules carry the hereditary information. But DNA has physical and
chemical properties that make it attractive for uses beyond heredity. In this Review, we …

Nucleic acids have attracted widespread attention due to the simplicity with which they can
be designed to form discrete structures and programmed to perform specific functions at the …

The blooming field of structural DNA nanotechnology harnessing the material properties of
nucleic acids has attracted widespread interest. The exploitation of the precise and …

INTRODUCTION Self-folding of an information-carrying polymer into a compact particle with
defined structure and function (for example, folding of a polypeptide into a protein) is …

DNA molecules have been used to build a variety of nanoscale structures and devices over
the past 30 years, and potential applications have begun to emerge. But the development of …

Biological organisms use complex molecular networks to navigate their environment and
regulate their internal state. The development of synthetic systems with similar capabilities …

Like DNA, RNA can be designed and manipulated to produce a variety of different
nanostructures. Moreover, RNA has a flexible structure and possesses catalytic functions …