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 ...

Double helical covalent polymers—which are spiraling collections of nature’s building blocks—are fundamental to life itself, and yet, despite decades of research, scientists have never been able to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to detect a variety of diseases, including cancer or infectious diseases such ...