Folding with DNA, too!

[susato]

Researchers at MIT are looking at the folding of engineered DNA to make it fold into functional shapes

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/dna- ... -0427.html

Some of the wet biochemistry behind these structures, and on DNA structure self-assembly, is also underway at Cornell:

http://luolabs.bee.cornell.edu/

[VijayPande]

Yea, DNA is appealing for nanotech since it is much easier to predict its folding properties (at least its secondary structure) than proteins, but this is a pretty different use of DNA than what nature does, so it doesn't help in terms of medical applications.