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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.