We're delighted to have five fantastic new lab members! Tush and Srija are exploring the yield of formation and morphology of novel modular and generatively-design DNA origami. Ivy and Vanessa are undergraduates, who are exploring the nanoscale and microscale system properties of two different PNA-DNA tile-based systems. And Praneetha is a postdoctoral researcher, who has joined our ARPA-H POSEIDON project team. Welcome to the lab!

On December 4th, Prof. Taylor presented the lab research vision for nanomachines at bio- and electronic interfaces at the Carnegie Mellon University CMU125: Power of Possibilities Tour NYC.

Shoutouts to fellow presenters Prof. Simon DeDeo and Prof. Laurence Ales for their inspiring and thoughtful visions of the challenges and opportunities for innovation in this new age of AI.

It was also amazing to connect with so many amazing Carnegie Mellon alumni in NYC!

Elsa's paper "MoleculeCrafter and Noncanonical Base Pairing: A Semiautomated CAD Tool for Creating Flexible and Unitized 3D Printable Macromolecules for Education"" was published in the Journal of Chemical Education.

Congratulations to Elsa for demonstrating a novel use of semiautomated CAD tools to give the educational community a new and powerful modelmaking tool! This rapid and easy to use pipeline expands the accessibilitiy 3D printed models of nucleic acid structures and nanotechnology.

We are now recruiting for the Prism Science Initiative ! Join us!

Honored and thrilled to represent the team as PI for this ARPA-H POSEIDON project, which brings together phenomenal researchers across academia and industry. We come from CMU engineering, Ginkgo Bioworks, the University of Pittsburgh, Platypus Bio NZ, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, KU Leuven, and Velentium Medical.

In this ambitious project we aim to tackle one of the grand challenges in cancer medicine, the early detection of stage 1 tumors, with the aim of making cancer detection affordable and convenient for everyone! Read the CMU press release here.

Congrats to Lainie Beauchemin and Zijuan Liang for presenting their work at the Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering on September 19, 2025. We are delighted to announce that Zijuan won The Best Abstract award for her poster abstract, and she was invited to give The Best Abstract Talk at the forum! Many thanks for the organizers of the CMU BME Forum for such an exciting event.

Congratulations to Vismaya Walawalkar for winning a Best Talk Award at the 2025 Fall ACS meeting's symposium on "Nanoscale Tools to Understand the Physical Biology of a Cell".

Thank you to the organizers of the workshop, Profs. Divita Mathur, Alexander Marras and Carlos Castro!

Taryn's review "Microswimmers That Flex: Advancing Microswimmers with Templated Assembly and Responsive DNA Nanostructures" was published in Accounts of Materials Research. This invited review and perspective describes recent progress towards experimental realization of responsible microswimmers made with compliant DNA components.

Congrats to Taryn and co-advisor Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter on providing this exciting and useful guide to the micro/nanorobotics community!