ArticleNature nanotechnology2017
Microscopic agents programmed by DNA circuits.
Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.
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- Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks.Nature chemistry · 2022Article
- Programmable synthetic cell networks regulated by tuneable reaction rates.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Catalytic DNA Polymerization Can Be Expedited by Active Product Release.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022Article
- Dissipative DNA nanotechnology.Nature chemistry · 2022Review
- Programmed mechano-chemical coupling in reaction-diffusion active matter.Science advances · 2021Article
- Reversible and spatiotemporal control of colloidal structure formation.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Development of Synthetic DNA Circuit and Networks for Molecular Information Processing.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Information stored in synthetic nucleic acids sequences can be used in vitro to create complex reaction networks with precisely programmed chemical dynamics. Here, we scale up this approach to program networks of microscopic particles (agents) dispersed in an enzymatic solution. Agents may possess multiple stable states, thus maintaining a memory and communicate by emitting various orthogonal chemical signals, while also sensing the behaviour of neighbouring agents. Using this approach, we can produce collective behaviours involving thousands of agents, for example retrieving information over long distances or creating spatial patterns. Our systems recapitulate some fundamental mechanisms of distributed decision making and morphogenesis among living organisms and could find applications in cases where many individual clues need to be combined to reach a decision, for example in molecular diagnostics.
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