Creating such a complex biological module is an important step towards an even more ambitious goal: building a complete and functioning synthetic cell from the bottom up.

Make sure the class understands what the model shows: (1) chromatin is made of DNA and histones; and (2) the chromatin is twisted into a secondary spiral.

Using DNA as smart LEGO bricks, scientists are building the next generation of tiny tech that could change computing, medicine, and more.

Physicists from the University of Oxford have designed the first structurally robust, self-assembling DNA building blocks. The DNA tetrahedra, 10,000,000,000 (ten thousand million) of which could ...

A tiny space shuttle made out of DNA "LEGO bricks" shows how scientists could someday build new technologies on the smallest scales. Single DNA strands became "LEGO bricks" that could assemble ...

The first ABI synthesizer, Model 380A, shipped in 1983. This object, Model 394 introduced in 1991, was the second wave of Applied Biosystems’s DNA/RNA synthesizers.