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Building big with DNA gets a software upgrade

Forty-four years ago, Nadrian Seeman published his groundbreaking ideas on using DNA as a structural material, expanding DNA's significance far beyond its role as a carrier of genetic information.

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Forty‑four years ago, researcher Nadrian Seeman introduced the concept of using DNA as a structural material, expanding its role beyond genetic information storage. Since that pioneering work, the field of DNA nanotechnology has steadily grown, producing a series of innovations that build on Seeman’s ideas. Among these advances is DNA origami, a technique that lets scientists fold a single long DNA strand into precise two‑dimensional or three‑dimensional shapes.

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