
TED Talks
Paul Rothemund: Casting spells with DNA
TV-PG
2007 • E138 Oct 18, 2007 7mPaul Rothemund writes code that causes DNA to arrange itself into a star, a smiley face and more. Sure, it's a stunt, but it's also a demonstration of self-assembly at the smallest of scales -- with vast implications for the future of making things.