DNA origami

S Dey, C Fan, KV Gothelf, J Li, C Lin, L Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

The biological applications of DNA nanomaterials: current challenges and future directions

W Ma, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, C Mao, X **e… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

DNA functional materials assembled from branched DNA: design, synthesis, and applications

Y Dong, C Yao, Y Zhu, L Yang, D Luo… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
DNA is traditionally known as a central genetic biomolecule in living systems. From an
alternative perspective, DNA is a versatile molecular building-block for the construction of …

Prospects and challenges of dynamic DNA nanostructures in biomedical applications

T Tian, Y Li, Y Lin - Bone Research, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Nanocrystal assemblies: Current advances and open problems

CL Bassani, G Van Anders, U Banin, D Baranov… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We explore the potential of nanocrystals (a term used equivalently to nanoparticles) as
building blocks for nanomaterials, and the current advances and open challenges for …

Synthesis and applications of anisotropic nanoparticles with precisely defined dimensions

AK Pearce, TR Wilks, MC Arno… - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Shape and size play powerful roles in determining the properties of a material; controlling
these aspects with precision is therefore an important, fundamental goal of the chemical …

DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleic acid nanoassembly-enhanced RNA therapeutics and diagnosis

M Zhao, R Wang, K Yang, Y Jiang, Y Peng, Y Li… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
RNAs are involved in the crucial processes of disease progression and have emerged as
powerful therapeutic targets and diagnostic biomarkers. However, efficient delivery of …

DNA origami nanostructures can exhibit preferential renal uptake and alleviate acute kidney injury

D Jiang, Z Ge, HJ Im, CG England, D Ni… - Nature biomedical …, 2018 - nature.com
Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently require kidney transplantation and
supportive therapies, such as rehydration and dialysis. Here, we show that radiolabelled …

Biotechnological mass production of DNA origami

F Praetorius, B Kick, KL Behler, MN Honemann… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
DNA nanotechnology, in particular DNA origami, enables the bottom-up self-assembly of
micrometre-scale, three-dimensional structures with nanometre-precise features …