# DNA tiles pave the way Fabricating shapes out of single-stranded DNA

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**Created:** [June 2, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/dna-tiles-pave-the-way-fabricating-shapes-out-of-single-stranded-dna/1518 "2012-06-02T00:28:00Z")
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### Author: ![Joshua\_Weitzman](https://forum.eternagame.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aca169/32.png) [@Joshua\_Weitzman](https://forum.eternagame.org/u/Joshua_Weitzman)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/dna-tiles-pave-the-way-fabricating-shapes-out-of-single-stranded-dna/1518/1 "2012-06-02T00:28:00Z")

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[http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/n…](http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/may/31/dna-tiles-pave-the-way)

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### Author: ![Eli\_Fisker](https://forum.eternagame.org/user_avatar/forum.eternagame.org/eli_fisker/32/4453_2.png) [@Eli\_Fisker](https://forum.eternagame.org/u/Eli_Fisker)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/dna-tiles-pave-the-way-fabricating-shapes-out-of-single-stranded-dna/1518/2 "2012-06-02T13:38:00Z")

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DNA self assembly alphabet. Very cool! So a new technique compared to DNA origami. Not as precise as the former, but very fast and with a drop in prize that brings hopes on development on the precision.

Thx for the article, Joshua. 🙂

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### Author: ![Eli\_Fisker](https://forum.eternagame.org/user_avatar/forum.eternagame.org/eli_fisker/32/4453_2.png) [@Eli\_Fisker](https://forum.eternagame.org/u/Eli_Fisker)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/dna-tiles-pave-the-way-fabricating-shapes-out-of-single-stranded-dna/1518/3 "2012-11-30T12:29:00Z")

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I found this small video on the progress of building with DNA style.

[Building 3D structures with DNA bricks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xvp3c8Q586U)

Jnicol found this cool article.

[DNA nanotechnology goes 3D](http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/dna-nanotechnology-goes-3d/81247691/)

He also dug up this molecular animation of how the DNA bricks gets assembled.

[DNA Bricks - Molecular Animation](http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/409/)

This building style is not the same as DNA origami. As Jnicol quoted from the press release:

Another method used to build 3D structures, called DNA origami, is tougher to use to build complex shapes, Yin said, because it relies on a long “scaffold” strand of DNA that folds to interact with hundreds of shorter “staple” strands - and each new shape requires a new scaffold routing strategy and hence new staples. In contrast, the DNA brick method does not use any scaffold strand…

[Researchers Create Versatile 3D Nanostructures Using DNA “Bricks”](http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/101/)