Wednesday, December 6, 2017

The world’s smallest Mona Lisa is made from DNA

The Mona Lisa is divided into squares, each of which is folded by using one long DNA strand manipulated by “staples” (short, custom-designed strands) that bind to and pull on it. After that, it’s a matter of attaching the squares to a DNA canvas. You do that by isolating each square into a test tube and combining them in progressively larger squares (2×2, 4×4 and finally 8×8) until Mona Lisa

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