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DNA Nanorobots

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An awesome paper from Shawn Douglas, Ido Bachelet, and George Church at the Wyss Institute uses DNA origami to create nanorobots that can target and kill cancer cells in a population of healthy cells. Check out the video where the authors describe their work, or stories from Nature News and New Scientist.

Douglas, S. M., Bachelet, I. & Church, G. M. "A Logic-Gated Nanorobot for Targeted Transport of Molecular Payloads." Science 335, 831–834 (2012).

Christina Agapakis is a biologist, designer, and writer with an ecological and evolutionary approach to synthetic biology and biological engineering. Her PhD thesis projects at the Harvard Medical School include design of metabolic pathways in bacteria for hydrogen fuel production, personalized genetic engineering of plants, engineered photosynthetic endosymbiosis, and cheese smell-omics. With Oscillator and Icosahedron Labs she works towards envisioning the future of biological technologies and synthetic biology design.

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