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In the rapid and fast-growing world of nanotechnology, researchers are continually on the lookout for new building blocks to push innovation and discovery to scales much smaller than the tiniest speck of dust.In the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, researchers are using DNA to make intricate nano-sized objects. Working at this scale holds great potential for advancing medical and electronic applications. DNA, often thought of as the molecule of life, is an ideal building block...

Lab-scale gene chips, move over for your smaller counterpart. Hao Yan of the Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics led researchers in creating a very small tool that may revolutionize genetic research. This tool, a nano gene chip, can be used to examine thousands of genes at the same time for mutations, much like the current gene chips, only this time the technology is tens of thousands of times smaller. Stuart Lindsay, a physics professor...