A main focus of our lab is to use the principles of biomolecular design to create novel nanodevices. One direction that is very important for this goal is to develop biosensor devices. The biosensors that we make are both simple and more complex devices made of DNA or RNA. Our aim is to create nanorobots, which we define as rationally designed autonomous molecular devices that can sense, compute and act functionally. Biosensors are very central to this since they are able to sense, transduce, and report an output.
