Johns Hopkins engineers have developed gel strips that change shape when given chemical instructions written in DNA code.

New research shows how SMC proteins make long loops in our DNA and also put twists into the loops as they form, helping to ...

More information: Ruohong Shi et al, Programming gel automata shapes using DNA instructions, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51198-9 Journal information: Nature Communications ...

This is because many proteins are so important to an organism that a mutation in their gene (i.e., the DNA sequence that ...