DNA origami

S Dey, C Fan, KV Gothelf, J Li, C Lin, L Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

Functionalizing framework nucleic‐acid‐based nanostructures for biomedical application

T Zhang, T Tian, Y Lin - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Strategies for functionalizing diverse tetrahedral framework nucleic acids (tFNAs) have been
extensively explored since the first successful fabrication of tFNA by Turberfield. One‐pot …

Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy

J Wang, Y Li, G Nie - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecule-based nanostructures are inherently multifunctional and harbour diverse
biological activities, which can be explored for cancer nanomedicine. The supramolecular …

Functionalizing DNA origami to investigate and interact with biological systems

GA Knappe, EC Wamhoff, M Bathe - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
DNA origami has emerged as a powerful method to generate DNA nanostructures with
dynamic properties and nanoscale control. These nanostructures enable complex …

The biological applications of DNA nanomaterials: current challenges and future directions

W Ma, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, C Mao, X Xie… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA, a genetic material, has been employed in different scientific directions for various
biological applications as driven by DNA nanotechnology in the past decades, including …

DNA functional materials assembled from branched DNA: design, synthesis, and applications

Y Dong, C Yao, Y Zhu, L Yang, D Luo… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
DNA is traditionally known as a central genetic biomolecule in living systems. From an
alternative perspective, DNA is a versatile molecular building-block for the construction of …

Gene-encoding DNA origami for mammalian cell expression

JA Kretzmann, A Liedl, A Monferrer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
DNA origami may enable more versatile gene delivery applications through its ability to
create custom nanoscale objects with specific targeting, cell-invading, and intracellular …

A DNA nanorobot functions as a cancer therapeutic in response to a molecular trigger in vivo

S Li, Q Jiang, S Liu, Y Zhang, Y Tian, C Song… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Nanoscale robots have potential as intelligent drug delivery systems that respond to
molecular triggers,,,. Using DNA origami we constructed an autonomous DNA robot …

DNA nanotechnology-enabled drug delivery systems

Q Hu, H Li, L Wang, H Gu, C Fan - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, we have seen rapid advances in applying nanotechnology in
biomedical areas including bioimaging, biodetection, and drug delivery. As an emerging …

DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …