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2025: Lab Launch
The first experimental DNA origami laboratory in Russia, a new field of nanotechnology that allows the use of deoxyribonucleic acid molecules as a building material to create nanostructures of any shape and purpose, has begun work at the Skoltech Center for Engineering Physics. The laboratory led by Irina Martynenko is developing miniature sensors for detecting viruses using a regular mobile phone, elements of quantum computers, surfaces with chameleon skin properties and molecular robots. The DNA origami technique has been known in the world for more than 20 years, but in Russia the first experimental studies are just beginning. This became known on August 11, 2025.
According to Izvestia, the laboratory is a multidisciplinary scientific unit working at the intersection of physics, biophysics, engineering, optics, photonics and molecular biology. The main task of scientists is to create ultra-miniature devices on a chip capable of controlling light flux with nanometer accuracy.
Irina Martynenko, head of the DNA origami laboratory, noted that a unique task is to master the exact placement of DNA structures on the surface up to a nanometer. According to her, individual molecules need to be accurately fixed in the right place on the chip to create controlled materials.
It is planned to develop metasurfaces that will replace traditional optics in the form of thin, accurate and compact lens analogues. Based on them, a biochip of 1 square centimeter can be created to detect single biomolecules.
The device will allow you to place a sample of saliva, photograph it on a regular phone and determine which viruses it contains. Such technology can revolutionize the diagnosis of infectious diseases, making it available in any setting.
Domestic specialists were trained by one of the pioneers of this area - Professor Tim Lidl from the University of Munich. Martynenko stressed that the laboratory has fully mastered the manufacture of DNA origami and does not depend on foreign suppliers.[1]
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