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By Nina Notman2021-01-26T09:43:00+00:00
Devices made from nucleic acids are starting to find their feet, says Nina Notman
The human body hosts millions of molecular motors and other machines. They keep our lungs breathing, our hearts beating, our brains thinking and our digestive systems gurgling. ‘Life is just amazing. The more we learn about all the incredible functionality that’s present on a microscopic level of life, the more many of us are filled with the desire to be able to recapitulate similar kinds of functionality synthetically,’ says William Shih, a biochemistry professor at Harvard University in Massachusetts, US.