Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism | Cornell Chronicle

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Cornell engineers have constructed a DNA material with capabilities of metabolism, in addition to self-assembly and organization

-three key traits of life.

Cornell engineers have created simple machines composed of biomaterials with properties of living organism.

Using what they call DASH (DNA-based Assembly and Synthesis of Hierarchical)


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