Nucleic Do-It-Yourself

D.V. Pyshnyi, А.G. Ven’yaminova, А.N. Sinyakov, М.А. Zenkova, V.V. Vlasov

Molecules of relatively simple chemical compounds have the characteristic sizes below one nanometer. However, nanoobjects also include biomacromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, as well as larger molecular “cellular machines” and even viruses, the deceptively simplest living organisms. Basic studies of these objects have always been the main scope of molecular biology. At the same time, scientists worked on the problems of synthesis and applications of natural macromolecules and their artificial analogs, long before nanotechnologies were announced as a state priority direction of research.

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