Abstract: To break through the size limitation in DNA structure assembly and to achieve the construction of DNA structures with submicrometre and micrometre scale, Fan and Yan et al. proposed a versatile DNA structure assembly strategy, named as meta-DNA(M-DNA) strategy. Submicrometre-sized M-DNA, which has a six-helix bundle DNA origami nanostructure, is used as building block to precisely assemble a series of submicrometre-to-micrometre-sized DNA architectures with customed shapes, including meta-multi-arm junctions, polyhedrons and closely packed lattices. Besides static assembly, the proposed M-DNA strategy was also demonstrated to work well for the programmed dynamic rearrangement of DNA structures. This work has been published online in the Nature Chemistry on September 7, 2020.