DNA nanotechnology
Engineering discipline that uses DNA strands as programmable building material to construct nanoscale structures and simple mechanical devices.
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First DNA Robot Capable of Bipedal Motion
In April 2004, chemists William Sherman and Nadrian Seeman at New York University reported a bipedal DNA robot whose two 10-nanometre legs walked along a single-stranded DNA track through the sequential addition of 'set' and 'unset' strands, demonstrating programmable nanoscale locomotion.