Biosensors play a key role in medical research and diagnostics. At present, however, they generally have to be specially developed for each application. A team led by LMU chemist Philip Tinnefeld has ...

Researchers have developed a strategy that enables biosensors to be easily adapted for a wide range of applications.

Researchers led by Philip Tinnefeld have created DNA origami-based sensors capable of detecting lipid vesicles and delivering molecular cargo using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). Their ...

Previously, researchers found that delivering adjuvant and antigen molecules to APCs simultaneously using nanostructures like DNA origami can increase APC activation. However, none of these ...

Professor Leo Chou (BME) has been awarded $130,000 in funding from the Cancer Research Society (CRS) to propel forward an ...

In case you had any doubts that we live in the future, scientists just created a medical device straight out of Star Trek or, depending on your view of ...

The sensor uses a DNA origami scaffold, which consists of two arms connected by a molecular "hinge." Each arm is tagged with a fluorescent dye, and the distance between the tags is recorded by means ...

A key area of focus is DNA assembly, including a technique known as DNA origami. An ever-increasing number of research groups are exploiting programmable self-assembly properties of nucleic acids in ...

DNA nanotechnology is a field of nanotechnology that uses DNA molecules as building blocks to create structures and devices on the nanoscale, including the emerging field of DNA computing. DNA ...

Nanoscopic DNA chips assembled using the DNA origami method enable target detection in solution and hold promise for single-cell gene expression analysis. In 2006 Paul Rothemund of the California ...