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MagicDNA software for designing multi-component DNA origami structure. This developing software is called MagicDNA (Multi-component Assembly in a Graphical Interface guided by Computation for DNA ...

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who teaches, invents new designs, and writes papers on the underlying math.