Building Nanotechnology from Nature's Toolkit | Part 3 of 3

Biotechnology Lecture Series 2009 Maria Derosa, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Carleton University DNA may be best known for carrying the genetic blueprint for all living things but recently it has become part of the construction materials in the exciting field of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology seeks to make and manipulate useful devices on an extremely small length scale (billionth of a meter). As Nature has been very successful working at this length scale, it makes sense to look to biological building blocks, like DNA, for use in nanotechnology. In this talk, we'll look at some of the latest advances in DNA nanotechnology for applications in electronics, sensors, and therapeutics. www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca