CAREER: Nucleic Acid Engineering -- Integrating DNA into Biomaterial Research and Education

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0547330LuoThe overall goals of this research focus on Nucleic Acid Engineering -- integratingDNA into biomaterial research, not by just mimicking biomolecules, but by actually usingbiomolecules themselves, DNA in this case, to construct new materials and nanodevices.Departing from the conventional concept of DNA being just a genetic material, it is proposed here to deliberately ignore DNA's various genetic roles and instead to use DNA as a generic building block for the construction of novel DNA-based biomaterials whose architectures can be controlled at the nanoscale, and whose properties can be further tailored towards specific biomedical and biotechnological applications.