Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) Prof. Um Soong-ho’s research team announced on Dec 4, that they have developed a ‘Knitting Technique.’ to design a nucleic acid nanostructure.
The research team explains a nucleic acid and an enzyme are each used as a thread and needle in a knitting process, to synthesize and precisely control the creation of a nucleic acid structure that is several nano-meters in size, and is also more easy to create the desired structure than current techniques.
The research team says “The nucleic acid structure created this way will not only be utilized in basic science but also as a research material for new applied sciences as well.”
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