Disrupting medicine: DNA Origami as the new cornerstone of nano robotics

Session by SPRIND with Klaus Wagenbauer, CEO of Plectonic Biotech, Nicola Kegel, CEO of Nanogami, Christian Sigl, CEO of Capsitec, and Hendrik Dietz, Professor & Founder, Technical University of Munich at the "Festival der Zukunft" 2023 by 1E9 and Deutsches Museum.

Session Description:
DNA is known as the "code of life". After working on this topic for the last twenty years, science has now achieved breakthroughs in building three-dimensional functional structures using DNA Origami. These can be used to build tailor-made traps for viruses or to build molecules that specifically recognize cancer cells and switch on for targeted antibody immunotherapies. Moreover, engineered DNA has now been used to build the first machines in molecular scale, paving the way for the industrial application of synthetic DNA objects and DNA computing. You will learn in this panel first hand from global DNA Origami pioneers, why we are watching the birth of a while new industry.