folding DNA

from meetup:  (see the hexaflexagon at http://youtu.be/dES-ozV65u4?t=5m38s)



CafeSci Boston - “Studying Genomic Origami"
Tuesday, February 17, 20157:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Cafe Artscience

650 Kendall St, Cambridge, MA (map)
Lecture is in hall inside the Cafe Artscience restaurant. (Not in the gallery on the left.)

“Studying Genomic Origami"
with Miriam Huntley

Le Laboratoire Cambridge 650 East Kendall Street Cambridge, MA 02142 How is it that every cell inside our body has the exact same DNA, and yet an eye cell performs a very different function from a blood cell? It turns out that different cells fold up their DNA in different ways, much in the same way an origami artist will fold up the same piece of paper in different ways in order to create different shapes. I'll talk about some of our recent work done in the Aiden Lab which sheds light on the exciting mystery of how the genome folds. Miriam Huntley is a doctoral student at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. View the Aiden Lab's unique video explaining their research here

self folding robot walks away

Self folding robot
from http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0808/Is-an-origami-robot-uprising-unfolding-video 

folding pop up robots

https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/the-challenge-of-manufacturing-between-macro-and-micro
The Challenge of Manufacturing Between Macro and Micro

Classic ways of folding paper into dynamic shapes—origami, pop-up books—inspire methods to engineer millimeter-scale machines.  Robert J. Wood

In the current trend toward miniaturization, the sizes in between “normal” and “microscopic” get a bit neglected. Wood discusses various methods that his group has developed to construct electromechanical devices with feature sizes in the millimeter range, which he calls the meso-scale. He particularly describes work on devices inspired by children’s pop-up books, where items are formed flat using laser cutting and then folded into 3D shapes. By sandwiching layers and using movable folds, Wood can create functional devices such as small flying robots, surgical instruments, or environmental sensors.

conference poster credit !

Folded a shirt and dress for poster art, conference at Brandeis U.

Just held today March 11th.

origami microscopes

foldable microscopes
http://www.ted.com/talks/manu_prakash_a_50_cent_microscope_that_folds_like_origami

door

Door.


and in steel -

dresses in tyvek, vases from brown shopping bag-

Origami fashion http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/good-to-share/10595172/Feeling-creative-Try-wearing-some-origami.html



The basic folding pattern of the lower half follows this, which is now with John Stone at UDub.

dodecahedron and fireworks

hexahexaflexagons from Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner's article on hexahexaflexagons and how to make them
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maa/cmj/2012/00000043/00000001/art00002

medicinal folds

http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2013/07/origami-unfolds-a-new-tissue-engineering-strategy/

Origami unfolds a new tissue engineering strategy
July 30, 2013 by Angela Herring


Carol Livermore has developed a way to precisely assemble objects on a two dimensional surface. She believes that folding these surfaces like pieces of origami paper will afford a simple and effective tissue engineering approach. Photo by Brooks Canaday.

Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, has been around for more than a mil­len­nium, but asso­ciate pro­fessor of mechan­ical and indus­trial engi­neeringCarol Liv­er­more is now using it to create solu­tions in an emerging mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary field in med­i­cine: tissue engineering.