Media Coverage

The Daily Mail
DNA - the building blocks of life - has been turned into literal building blocks, like very, very small Lego, creating an alphabet where each letter is 1,000th the thickness of a human hair. Researchers at Harvard have come up with a method for building tiny structures out of synethetic DNA strands, which are programmed to assemble themselves into the alphabet...

Radio Australia News
Harvard University scientists say they have managed to program DNA strands to assemble themselves into smiley emoticons, Chinese characters and card-game symbols at scales of billionths of a metre. The feat marks the next step in "DNA origami" in which the molecule that provides the genetic code for life is used as a building block at the nanoscale...

World News Australia
Harvard University scientists on Wednesday said they had created Smileys, Chinese characters and card-game symbols at scales of billionths of a metre using strands of DNA. The feat marks the next step in "DNA origami" in which the molecule that provides the genetic code for life is used as a building block at the nanoscale...

iOL Scitech
Paris - Harvard University scientists on Wednesday said they had created Smileys, Chinese characters and card-game symbols at scales of billionths of a metre using strands of DNA. The feat marks the next step in “DNA origami” in which the molecule that provides the genetic code for life is used as a building block at the nanoscale...

Harvard Gazette
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a way to use DNA as physical, rather than genetic, building blocks, creating tiny structures out of short strands of synthetic DNA that could one day be used to deliver drugs directly to disease sites...

Physics World
This image may look like a collection of novelty spaghetti shapes but these detailed figures are in actual fact made from assemblies of DNA strands as imaged by an atomic force microscope (AFM). It is the demonstration of a pioneering technique, developed at Harvard University...

Discover Magazine
This post is written in DNA. These letters are just 100 nanometers tall. Each one is made from single strands of DNA that fold into rectangular tiles. When mixed, the tiles assemble like bricks in a wall...

MSNBC -- The Cosmic Log
The DNA molecule serves as the code of life, but it also serves as handy building material for nanoscale structures — and newly published research shows how patterns as complex as letters, numbers and smiley faces can be created far more cheaply and quickly than previously thought...

The Asian Age
Harvard University scientists on Wednesday said they had created smileys, Chinese characters and card-game symbols at scales of billionths of a metre using strands of DNA...

Phys Org
The feat marks the next step in "DNA origami" in which the molecule that provides the genetic code for life is used as a building block at the nanoscale, with potential outlets in engineering and medicine. DNA is like a twisted ladder with double "rungs" of chemicals which interlock...

Newscientist
LEGO, eat your heart out. Blocks of DNA have been programmed to automatically build themselves into nanoscopic structures. Eventually the DNA programmes will be sophisticated enough to churn out minuscule therapeutic devices that work inside the body...

Nature
Scientists have developed a way to carve shapes from DNA canvases, including all the letters of the Roman alphabet, emoticons and an eagle’s head...

The Boston Globe
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard will accept a Webby Award Monday. The institute won the award, which recognizes the best of the Internet, in the science category...

KPFK -- California Public Radio [audio]
...In January 2009, Harvard received the largest philanthropic gift in its history — $125M — to create the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and today’s guest is its founding director, Don Ingber...

Harvard Gazette
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced the 51 women and men — from across the University and around the world — who will be convening as next year’s Radcliffe Institute Fellows...

BusinessWeek
In 1996 a young mathematician and computer scientist named Erik Demaine became fascinated by a magic trick that Harry Houdini used to do before he made his name as an escape artist. The magician would fold a piece of paper flat a few times, make one straight cut with a pair of scissors, and then unfold the paper to reveal a five-pointed star...