A fragment of a single strand of DNA, built of the nucleobases cytosine and guanine, can be imprinted in a polymer, researchers have shown. The resulting artificial negative, with a record-long length ...

Through their reliable, reversible hybridization, nucleic acids can guide the assembly of nanostructures with unparalleled precision 1,2,3. The predictability of Watson–Crick DNA base pairing makes it ...

Researchers have chemically imprinted polymer particles with DNA strands -- a technique that could lead to new materials for applications ranging from biomedicine to the promising field of 'soft ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists in Japan have made a tuneable, elastic and temperature-sensitive gel by using complementary DNA strands to connect star-shaped polymer molecules together. The gel, and the ...

Introducing therapeutic nucleic acids into cells is a way to potentially fix the genetic causes of diseases such as Down’s syndrome and cystic fibrosis. Scientists have designed synthetic materials to ...

Synthetic DNA-labelled polymers can be made to self-assemble on two- and three-dimensional DNA scaffolds in custom routings. The researchers — who are based at Aarhus University, Harvard University, ...

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. – In an unusual breakthrough at New York University's department of chemistry, researchers have been able to turn DNA into a molecular machine that can assemble polymer chains one ...

University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers in the Department of Chemistry have created a new polymer to deliver DNA and RNA-based therapies for diseases. For the first time in the industry, the ...

Gene therapy has been used in more than 1,000 clinical trials during the last 20 years. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has never approved a single application. The reason is simple: ...

A fragment of a single strand of DNA, built of the nucleobases cytosine and guanine, can be imprinted in a polymer - this has been shown by chemists from Warsaw, Denton and Milan. The resulting ...