Sorting Molecules with DNA Robots
September 14, 2017
Lulu Qian, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, and colleagues have developed a "robot," made of a single strand of DNA, that can autonomously "walk" around a surface, pick up certain molecules and drop them off in designated locations. [Caltech story]
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Trity Pourbahrami
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