We are delighted that Nature has written a highlight entitled DNA origami provides a stout armour for cells about our team’s recent work on tunable DNA-based nanoshells for cells. Congrats to Weitao Wang for leading this! Thanks to Xi (Charlie) Ren for being such an amazing collaborator.

Weitao's paper "Synthetic Cell Armor Made of DNA Origami" was published in ACS Nano Letters! Congratulations to Weitao, who is advised by Charlie Ren, on this exciting work!

Congratulations to Taryn Imamura for winning a best poster award at the Artificial Molecular Motors and Switches Gordon Research Conference! The prize for this award was the opportunity to convert her poster presentation into a full conference talk on the last day of the meeting.

Thanks for the organizers of this GRC!

This summer we are excited to welcome Eladio Andujar and Sruti Bapatla to the lab for summer undergraduate research and course development assistant projects!

Congratulations to Dr. Emma Benjaminson for successfully defending her thesis and getting a paper out this week! Fantastic work.

Congratulations to Rebekah Adams, who is co-advised by Profs Taylor and Ozdoganlar, for being selected as recipient of the 2023 Bertucci Fellowship in Engineering!

Many thanks to Claire and John Bertucci for supporting our outstanding PhD candidates!

Congratulations to Dr. Susana Beltán for successfully defending her thesis today. Fantastic work!

Weitao and his high-risk, high-reward research has been highlighted by the College of Engineering this article about the 2022-2023 Dowd Fellowship Winners Dowd Fellowship supports high-risk, high-reward research. As they state in the article: "Risky ideas often go unfunded—until someone is brave enough to trust in the researcher’s dreams." Many thanks to Philip and Marsha Dowd and the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

Congrats to Caleigh on her paper Modular, Articulated Models of DNA and Peptide Nucleic Acids for Nanotechnology Education that was just published by The Biophysicist!

The College of Engineering has named Prof. Taylor the Inaugural ANSYS Career Development Chair of Engineering!

Many thanks to CMU Engineering Dean Bill Sanders and to ANSYS for supporting the creation of this chaired position!