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    1. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      Adam Marblestone Retweeted Ed Boyden

      tl;dr: In work led by Dan Oran and @SGRodriques, co-PI'd with @eboyden3, and in collab w/ other important co-authors, we used hydrogels as 3D molecular breadboards to pattern materials using light, then shrunk those patterns down to the nanoscale -- a process called ImpFab.https://twitter.com/eboyden3/status/1073306186596929538 …

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      3D nanofabrication by volumetric deposition and controlled shrinkage of patterned scaffolds: "We present a strategy for the direct assembly of 3D nanomaterials consisting of metals, semiconductors, and biomolecules arranged in virtually any 3D geometry." http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/1281 …
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    2. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      Paper http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/1281 … and nice perspective piece http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/1244 … by Long and Williams. A LONG backstory follows... Back in 2006-2007 or so, my main obsession was nanotechnology, and my imagination was truly ignited by the work of Paul Rothemund, my mentors William

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    3. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      Shih and Shawn Douglas, and others, on scaffolded DNA origami -- DNA-based molecular breadboards for patterning arbitrary materials at the nanoscale. The problem, I felt at the time, was that those breadboards were still far too small: they needed to be chip-scale and

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    4. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      three-dimensional, not just tiny-but-precise assemblies that would tumble around in solution and bump into each other and potentially aggregate in a disorganized fashion, and so on. As a first year graduate student, I tried (unfortunately with a spectacular lack of mechanical

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    5. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      engineering acumen) to build an atomic force microscope based nano-manipulation system in the @medialab and Center for Bits and Atoms, under then super-postdoc @PrakashLab, which would have let us position DNA and DNA origami in a pick-and-place kind of fashion, not unrelated to

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    6. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      how then-Thiel/Musk-funded company Halcyon Molecular was stretching out DNA molecules using a mechanical probe and arraying them precisely on surfaces. Discussing with @geochurch, however, he pointed out that, apart from my lack of talent in building AFMs,

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    7. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      this was super un-scalable in principle, and that instead, to make chip-scale nano-assemblies, one should obviously use *optical* patterning of DNA to uniquely define mesoscale locations on a surface, and then make the nano-precise DNA nanostructures *big* enough that they could

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    8. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      bridge between the optically-defined spots. So I spent a year or so trying to make DNA nanostructures big enough to achieve that size-match with the big (>micron) patches of DNA that could be defined optically according to this so-called "nanometer to centimeter" or nm2cm scheme.

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    9. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      This was very interesting, and taught me a lot, but ultimately I failed to make good enough giant nanostructures to support the "nanometer to centimeter" scheme that Church and I had envisioned. Some years later, however, I was in the business of thinking up schemes for scalable

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      Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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      brain circuit mapping with the amazing @eboyden3 and his brilliant and adventurous graduate students like @SGRodriques, as well as a few of the graduate-student-like entities floating around the Media Lab, notably the young artist Dan Oran who was an expert on the chemistry

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        2. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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          behind classical non-digital photography as well as holograms and things like that. In that context, it turned out that being able to *change the sizes* of supra-molecular assemblies was becoming quite important, as in Expansion Microscopy one chemically links the molecules

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        3. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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          of interest in a brain sample into a hydrogel, and then swells the hydrogel to move those molecules apart from each other, to make them easier to see optically and more chemically accessible to biochemically interrogate/sequence/decode. What this unexpectedly opened up, though,

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        4. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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          was the possibility of running expansion microscopy in reverse! If one could do that, one could create optically-defined spots (in 3D) for attaching materials, and then shrink these spots down to a level where they become usefully nanoscale (e.g., for optical meta-materials

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        5. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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          applications where you want structures smaller than the wavelength of light). Thus, connecting back to the lineage of thinking around the nm2cm project, rather than than trying to make *bigger* building blocks to cover or bridge between optically defined spots, one could instead

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        6. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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          make the spots themselves *smaller*. So that is, in essence, what this paper does -- it optically patterns a hydrogel, then shrinks the resulting pattern. Now, nanotechnology still has a very very long way to go, particularly I think in accessing the length-scales of covalent

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        7. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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          chemistry, which are even smaller than the few nanometer minimum feature size on a DNA origami... an orthogonal but perhaps even more important problem compared to the mesoscale assembly problem that we tackle here. Moreover, extending ImpFab to create economically useful

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        8. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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          devices at scale, and perhaps, if it proves useful, to the kinds of integrated nm2cm DNA templated assemblies @geochurch and I envisioned, requires several further major steps. But I'm happy to look back on how a number of serendipitous intersections of people and technologies,

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        9. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 13 Dec 2018
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          and amazing work in the lab and on the whiteboard by Dan and Sam and the other co-authors, has led to an early milestone with this publication. Thanks to all the supporters of convergent technology involved this this work! /end

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