Scientists have invented a major new advance in DNA nanotechnology. Dubbed 'single-stranded origami,' their new strategy uses one long, thin noodle-like strand of DNA, or its chemical cousin RNA ...

More information: Martin Chenal et al, Discovery of the widespread site-specific single-stranded nuclease family Ssn, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57514-1 Provided by INRS ...

Sometimes the lagging strand synthesis stops, but the leading strand continues to grow. This shows up as a dark area in the glowing strand, because the dye doesn't stick to single-stranded DNA.

Single-stranded DNA is also used in many technologies (sequencing, gene editing, molecular diagnostics, nanotechnology). To date, no endonuclease – enzyme that cuts DNA – has been described as ...

Posted: Dec 14, 2017: Single-stranded DNA and RNA origami go live (Nanowerk News) Nanotechnologists are using DNA, the genetic material present in living organisms, as well as its multifunctional ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have watched single strands of DNA being prepped for repair. The research, published this week in the journal Nature, has ...

Single-stranded DNA is less common than double-stranded DNA. It is often found in some viruses and plays a key role in certain biological processes, such as cell replication or repair.

Short circular DNA nanotechnology. Comparatively, short circular DNA nanotechnology is created following a series of circularization steps that convert the short linear template strand into a ...

Building on this idea, two years later, Rothemund used hundreds of 26- to 32-base segments of DNA that he called staples to guide the folding of a 7-kilobase 'scaffold' strand into a variety of 2D ...

image: Single-stranded origami technology is based on design rules that can be used to cross DNA strands in and out of single stranded regions to build large nanostructures. view more Credit ...