{"id":33408,"date":"2018-10-30T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33408"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:41:05","slug":"worlds-smallest-mona-lisa-painted-with-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-smallest-mona-lisa-painted-with-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s smallest Mona Lisa \u2018painted\u2019 with\u00a0DNA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/lifestyle\/life-style\/worlds-smallest-mona-lisa-painted-with-dna-4972951\/\"><strong>World\u2019s smallest Mona Lisa \u2018painted\u2019 with\u00a0DNA<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from California Institute of Technology in the US developed an inexpensive method by which DNA origami self-assembles into large arrays with entirely customisable patterns, creating a sort of canvas that can display any image<\/p>\n<p><strong>DNA Origami assembles itself<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from California Institute of Technology in the US developed an inexpensive method by which DNA origami self-assembles into large arrays with entirely customisable patterns, creating a sort of canvas that can display any image<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excellent chemical block<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While DNA is perhaps best known for encoding the genetic information of living things, the molecule is also an excellent chemical building block<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A single-stranded DNA molecule is composed of smaller molecules called nucleotides \u2013 abbreviated A, T, C and G \u2013 arranged in a string, or sequence.<\/li>\n<li>The nucleotides in a single-stranded DNA molecule can bond with those of another single strand to form double-stranded DNA, but the nucleotides bind only in very specific ways: an A nucleotide with a T or a C nucleotide with a G.<\/li>\n<li>These strict base-pairing \u201crules\u201d make it possible to design DNA origami<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DNA canvas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A large DNA canvas is assembled out of many smaller square origami tiles, like putting together a puzzle.<\/li>\n<li>Molecules can be selectively attached to the staples in order to create a raised pattern that can be seen using atomic force microscopy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers developed software that can take an image such as the Mona Lisa, divide it up into small square sections, and determine the DNA sequences needed to make up those squares<\/li>\n<li>They then got those sections to self-assemble into a superstructure that recreates the Mona Lisa<\/li>\n<li>The online software tool converts the user\u2019s desired image to DNA strands and wet-lab protocols<\/li>\n<li>The protocol can be directly read by a liquid-handling robot to automatically mix the DNA strands together. The DNA nanostructure can be assembled effortlessly<\/li>\n<li>Using the online software tool and automatic liquid- handling techniques, several other patterns were designed and assembled from DNA strands, including a life-sized portrait of a bacterium and a bacterium-sized portrait of a rooster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s smallest Mona Lisa \u2018painted\u2019 with\u00a0DNA\u00a0 What has happened? Researchers from California Institute of Technology in the US developed an inexpensive method by which DNA origami self-assembles into large arrays with entirely customisable patterns, creating a sort of canvas that can display any image DNA Origami assembles itself Researchers from California Institute of Technology in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-smallest-mona-lisa-painted-with-dna\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World\u2019s smallest Mona Lisa \u2018painted\u2019 with\u00a0DNA\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704931899},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}