But his task is that of the most demanding locksmith: to pinpoint the chemical compounds that on their own will twist and fold ... biological map — which provides roughly 250,000 shapes that ...

Here I describe a simple method for folding long, single-stranded DNA molecules into arbitrary two-dimensional shapes. The design for a desired shape is made by raster-filling the shape with a 7 ...

The folded shape, or conformation, depends directly on the linear amino acid sequence of the protein. The building blocks of proteins are amino acids, which are small organic molecules that ...

The machinery of biology is built from proteins and it a protein’s shape defines its function. Understand how proteins fold up and researchers could usher in a new era of scientific and medical ...

In earlier work, the researchers used origami and the related technique of kirigami — which combines cutting with folding — to shape soft materials made of polymers. “But we wanted to extend these ...