The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Onna Village in Okinawa Prefecture have launched the Ecological Smart R...
The researchers used DNA to stick hydrogel blocks together in different ways, allowing them to self-assemble into structures and self-sort by color. T...
The hydrogel blocks disassembled when a second longer DNA strand was added that was a stronger match. The second strand therefore disrupted the bondin...
The hydrogel blocks were able to group themselves by color due to matching strands of DNA on their surface. This image was used in the press release, ...
The red and green hydrogel blocks were able to stick to each other due to base pairing between the matching strands of DNA on their surface. This imag...
