Together, they manipulated DNA to craft a three million times smaller version of a Nerf gun blaster. 2 Their bioRxiv preprint paves the way for intricate nanotechnology development. “It was a ...

For now, the goal is to build a single human chromosome—one of the 46 tightly wound bundles of DNA that make up the human genome—in the next 5 to 10 years. While gene editing makes it possible to ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing ...

Though it’ll be a long while before scientists can begin dishing out new DNA building blocks to humans, the potential implementations for synthetic nucleotides are seemingly endless.