Gene identification is big business, a vital step in ongoing research into the programming language of life itself - chasing down the diseases and even starting to look at improving the design. Current gene detection techniques require microliters of genetic material, which may not sound like much but when the stuff you're interested in is measured in molecules it adds up to a whole hell of a lot of very fragile material.
Deoxyribonucleic acid might be a big long name, but the stuff itself is
pretty small, hard to produce to order and not something you want to
waste.
Why go to all the bother
of building nanomachines from the ground up when there's a
super-advanced system that's been running just fine for millions of
years?
Also
note the phrase " scaffolded DNA origami", which proves that no matter
how much awesome stuff you hear about, science can and will come up
with something even crazier sounding.
clipped from www.dailygalaxy.com
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