The city of Paris has funded our research project "Artificial morphogenesis in a DNA molecular system". Its  goal is to study and fabricate new materials that  self-construct by emulating what happens during the early stages of embryonic development. This project will be carried out by a team of experimentalists and theoreticians from Laboratory Jean Perrin (J.-C. Galas, J. Robert, R. Voituriez et A. Estévez-Torres).