Science Café: David Michieletto - Can your DNA make the batteries of the future?

Name: Science Café: David Michieletto - Can your DNA make the batteries of the future?
Start: 2025-03-20T17:15:00+00:00
Location: The Kirkstyle Hotel

Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 at 05:15 pm UTC+00:00

The Kirkstyle Hotel | Peebles

Publisher/HostBiggar Science Festival

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$Science Caf\u00e9: David Michieletto - Can your DNA make the batteries of the future?$

Next Science Café event, 7.15 for 7.30 pm start.
Given hundreds of paper clips and a 15 metre rope, would you be able to build a robot? Surprisingly, DNA can do it. Scaled down 10,000 times, 2 meters of DNA are packaged in a cell nucleus, 20 times smaller than the width of your hair. Come find out how DNA has been packaged by life and possible applications in drug delivery and DNA batteries.