When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual element combining to become, for 40 years, the world's tallest building ...

Forget 3D printing—DNA and water now build tiny machines that assemble themselves A new approach breaks down complicated designs into modular building blocks for easy assembly from the bottom up.

Though it’ll be a long while before scientists can begin dishing out new DNA building blocks to humans, the potential implementations for synthetic nucleotides are seemingly endless.

Building Nerf Gun Blasters from DNA Bricks Researchers ingeniously repurposed DNA to assemble a miniaturized blaster at the molecular level.

The building blocks are strands of DNA that fold into a mechanically robust eight-sided octahedral shape, which Gang refers to as a voxel, with connectors at each corner that link each voxel together.