Saturday 26 April 2014

Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission

NANO TECH
Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 - It's a familiar trope in science fiction: In enemy territory, activate your cloaking device. And real-world viruses use similar tactics to make themselves invisible to the immune system. Now scientists at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have mimicked these viral tactics to build the first DNA nanodevices that survive the body's immune defenses. The results pa ... more


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