DNA-Robotics

Welcome to the DNA-Robotics website

DNA-Robotics is an Innovative Training Network (GA no. 765703) under the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions H2020. The school officially started on January 1 2018 and will run for 4 years. The DNA-Based Modular Robotics (DNA-Robotics) school is in the process of hiring 15 early stage researchers to subsequently take the first steps to scale advanced robotic behavior to the molecular scale for future medical and technological applications.

The death of the author

24/08/202124/08/2021by oam

“A text’s unity lies not in its origin, but in its destination.” – Roland Barthes (1967, translated 1977) I am in the middle of writing my PhD thesis. This is generally not considered an easy process, and I concur with…

DNA nanotechnologies: ideal tools for theranostics?

15/07/2021by oam

Theranostics is an emerging field that combines the power of diagnostics and therapeutic at the same time. The idea is not completely new, Nuclear Medicine has been using for example radioactive iodine to both image and treat certain types of…

The branching path in the life of a PhD

07/07/202107/07/2021by oam

As we approach the delineated end of this common venture that the ITN network was, all the students involved are starting to work towards the final stretches. Among the issues that require our attention in these coming days, a serious…

Linear actuators made from DNA

05/07/202105/07/2021by oam

In this article we show two different approaches to produce linear actuators made from DNA In all levels of engineering, complex machinery is based on the concerted activity of many different subunits of heterogeneous nature. One of such subunits are…

Artificial protein-DNA conjugates: Increasing the versatility of proteins with the help of DNA

22/06/202123/06/2021by oam

Hey there! This is Lorena, and in this post I will talk about protein-DNA conjugates, as part of the lecture course 🙂 I have recently been working quite a lot with them, so I am very excited to cover some…

Combining research with an active lifestyle

05/05/2021by oam

How do you succeed as a scientist? Do you have to be really smart? Well… I would not say it is as much about intelligence as about the ability to keep banging your head against a problem until you happen…

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