As a girl in Shanghai, China, Nancy Bjorge kept her fingers busy folding tiny paper boats. The shapes signified ingots, she says, and her grandmother pressed her to produce them by the hundreds.

With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

Figure 1: Examples of objects built with scaffolded DNA origami. Here we provide a practical guide to building objects using scaffold DNA origami. We discuss DNA origami design rules, introduce a ...

SNOHOMISH — A tantrum in a toy store was Kim Crane’s introduction to the gentle art of Japanese paper folding. When her mother refused to buy her an origami kit, 6-year-old Kim began tearing up the ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created what is possibly the world’s smallest Mona Lisa, using a mosaic of individual tiles of folded strands of DNA that, when ...