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Image: Scientists have designed a “nano-robot” made up of three DNA origami structures.Credit: ©Gaëtan Bellot/Inserm Constructing a tiny robot from DNA and using it to study cell processes invisible to the naked eye… You would be forgiven for thinking it is science fiction, but it is in fact the subject of serious research by scientists …
Columbia University (USA) team devises a molecular robot capable of moving along a DNA strand, farther and faster than previously developed DNA walking nanobots. Nanobots, tiny devices measured on a scale of billionths of a meter long, now are able to walk along a strand of DNA. Milan Stojanovic, from Columbia University (New York, USA), …