Custom-built DNA could be used as a sensor probe
- Written by Konstantinos Vavitsas, CSIRO Future Science Fellow in Synthetic Biology, The University of Queensland
Imagine using synthetic DNA as a sensor recording device.Rost/ShutterstockResearchers believe that DNA – the molecule that stores information about life – could one day be used as a type of sensor, to record information based on its surroundings.
Synthetic DNA (not produced in an organism and not containing genetic information of a...