Nanorobots & DNA Origami — Dr Shelley Wickham

Most drugs work by flooding the body with a particular molecule, in the hope that they will do their work where they’re most needed, and not damage the rest of the body along the way. What if you could design a programmable, nano-sized robot that could detect where it is and whether it’s safe to release its drug cargo, to target disease in just in the right place at the right time?

At the University of Sydney, Shelley uses self-assembling nanorobots made from DNA to solve all sorts of biomedical problems, from cancer detection and drug delivery, to monitoring health and reading early signs of heart disease.
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Dr Shelley Wickham, the Prof Harry Messel Research Fellow at the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, speaking to students at the 40th Professor Harry Messel International Science School, ISS2019: Frontier Science — The University of Sydney, Australia, July 2019.

Shelley's second ISS lecture on the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize:    • Amazing Lasers! The 2018 Physics Nobe...  
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