🔴Finally out TODAY in Advanced Materials: “Assembling a True Olympic Gel From over 16 000 Combinatorial #DNA Rings” #MaterialsScience #Nanotechnology Explainer thread below 👇👇👇

Just out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #LASSO a new method for ultra-selective isolation of biomolecules (DNA, RNA, or protein). This method uses a unique polymer phase separation mechanism to gently capture and pull down specific target sequences.

More great news for the holidays🎄 Our new review on "Functionalizing Nucleic Acids: Synthesis and Purification Strategies for Bioconjugates as Biomaterials" is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Many thanks to Nico Alleva, Jian Zhang and Torsten John!

Thanks to Advanced Functional Materials for highlighting our work on their back cover!

Big congrats to Dr. Krishna Gupta for winning the best poster prize at Oxford Global’s NextGen Omics conference in London, where he presented our work on #LASSO pulldown polymers. 💪 LASSO is a new general-purpose method for fast and ultra-selective biomolecule purification.

Fresh in @natchemeng.nature.com Growing artificial cytoskeleton in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA Artificial Cells. Brilliant work bey Weixiang! #Syntheticcell #systemschemistry www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Congratulations to Soumya and Charu for making the first ATP-fueled homeostatic cytokine delivery system for communication between artificial and living cells. Now in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social #syntheticcell #noneqsys #DNAnanoscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Multiplexed detection of viral pathogens on an AUTONOMOUSLY LOADING chip for point-of-care #diagnostics. Congrats to first authors Beatrise Berzina and Krishna Gupta and the entire EKFZ-funded *VirChip* team!

Schering Young Investigator Award 2025 by the Schering Stiftung for Agnes Toth-Petroczy @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social. She receives the award for her work on the evolution, diversity, and function of proteins. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

This is doing the rounds in my messages with colleagues, and is a very real threat to the field of microscopy 😬. Given one (published) microscope image probably costs between $100 and $10,000 (or more) to make - the lure of "oh I will just ChatGPT it" is very much there.

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

Exciting application of our programmable #CellCulture matrix #DyNAtrix. By creating a mechanically reconfigurable microenvironment, we can now invert & guide epithelial cell polarity in real time. #DNAnanotech 1/ 🧵