With both catalytic and genetic functions, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is perhaps the most
pluripotent chemical species in molecular biology, and its functions are intimately linked to …

RNAs are involved in the crucial processes of disease progression and have emerged as
powerful therapeutic targets and diagnostic biomarkers. However, efficient delivery of …

Self-assembly, which makes use of molecules rather than atomic units, offers a bottom-up
approach to the construction of new materials on multiple length scales.(1-9) By precisely …

Researchers have worked for many decades to master the rules of biomolecular design that
would allow artificial biopolymer complexes to self-assemble and function similarly to the …

The field of RNA nanotechnology has advanced rapidly during the past decade. A variety of
programmable RNA nanoparticles with defined shape, size, and stoichiometry have been …

INTRODUCTION Self-folding of an information-carrying polymer into a compact particle with
defined structure and function (for example, folding of a polypeptide into a protein) is …

Biological molecules such as DNA, proteins, and lipids can be assembled into naturally
existing nanoparticles, such as bacterial viruses (also called bacteriophages or phages) …

Although the mode of action of the ribosomes, the multi-component universal effective
protein-synthesis organelles, has been thoroughly explored, their mere appearance …

Like DNA, RNA can be designed and manipulated to produce a variety of different
nanostructures. Moreover, RNA has a flexible structure and possesses catalytic functions …

Artificial DNA and RNA structures have been used as scaffolds for a variety of nanoscale
devices. In comparison to DNA structures, RNA structures have been limited in size, but they …