Contact

Director of CDNA

Prof. Kurt Gothelf
CDNA and Department of Chemistry,
University of Aarhus, Langelandsgade 140
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark (Mail Address)

Local Address: Building 1511, Room 412
Phone: +45 8942 3907

Mobile: +45 6020 2725
Fax: +45 8619 6199
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Administrative Officer:
Jeanette Dandanell, Academic Linguist
CDNA and Department of Chemistry
University of Aarhus, Langelandsgade 140
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

Local address: Building 1511, Room 428
Phone:+45 8942 3899
Fax: +45 8619 6199
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CDNA highlights

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Construction of DNA dolphins with flexible tails

Dolphins from the Aarhus University seal were constructed in DNA. The novel DNA structures are characterized by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and shown to have flexible tails. The study involves the development of new software to design DNA-nanostructures of any shape and is expected to advance the field of DNA nanotechnology.

CDNA news

May 2010: DNA nano-spider published in Nature

CDNA collaborator Hao Yan publishes the paper "Molecular robots guided by prescriptive landscapes". A molecular nanorobot dubbed a "spider" and labeled with green dyes traverses a substrate track built upon a DNA origami scaffold. It journeys towards its red-labeled goal by cleaving the visited substrates, thus exhibiting the characteristics of an autonomously moving, behavior-based robot at the molecular scale.

In the same issue of Nature DNA origami was used to create an assembly line for synthesizing gold nanoparticles.