Tohoku University won the third overall victory following 10 at the 8th International Biomolecular Design Competition held at the University of California, San Francisco, USA in October.
According to Tohoku University, the International Biomolecule Design Competition is an international student competition that aims to design biomolecules and manufacture nano-micrometers. Twenty teams from eight countries around the world, including the United States and Canada, participated, including five teams supported by.
Tohoku University's team Sendai was organized by 3rd year students and younger in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Intelligence, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, and Department of Chemistry.We applied the structure used for folding the space structure called Miura fold to a nano-sized plane made of DNA, and succeeded in an experiment to unfold and fold it.
As a result of the examination, he was ranked 2st in the Best YouTube Video Award and Best Homepage Production Award, 1nd in the Best Presentation Award, and 2st in the General Category. Second place was North Carolina State University in the United States, and third place was the University of British Columbia in Canada.
