Tech for Good: Origami folding at a nanoscale
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout travels to Seoul National University in South Korea where a student, Myoungseok Kim, discovered a new way of folding already folded DNA; in essence, origami of DNA origami. DNA Origami as a field has been around since 2006. It applies short strands (known as staples) programmed with specific bases along a long single strand of DNA, folding them according to the base bonds to make all types of shapes. Previously, DNA origami could only fold once, but by modeling DNA structures after paper creases, Kim and his pro…