Two young nano - bio find give us hope that our shining nanotech hereafter could be closer than we think . One researcher harnessed the power of crazed hamsters , while another one has perfect double-tongued DNA - based nano - machine .
I totally love the video recording , above , of the hamster hooked up to the nanowire , generating enough power to drive some nano - devices . If you attach four nanowires to the plucky critter , you ’d have 200 millivolts , and you ’d be in business enterprise . I ’m picturing a whole program of sacking and tagging , with nanowires being attached to loads of forest creatures to provide a power source for devices that traveling bag and chase after other forest creatures . The ultimate eternal apparent movement simple machine !
Meanwhile , the Christian Science Monitor has an interview with Nadrian Seeman , a New York University professor who may be the “ Henry Ford of nanotechnology . ” Seeman talk about his struggle to make cheap , easily replicated nanomachines out of DNA , with two arms and error correction on the fly ball :
Seeman has been working on nanorobotics for several age . He first perfected a one - armed version in 2006 . It was the first time anyone had put together such a twist in a DNA array , he says .
Now , that he ’s pulled off a two - limb blueprint , Seeman say that his team can in conclusion build thing .
The self-aggrandizing leap in Seeman ’s work is the ability to “ distant control ” the DNA arms , allege Milan Stojanovic , a professor of medicine at Columbia University and theatre director of the National Science Foundation ’s Center for Molecular Cybernetics . at long last , his team can set up a communications protocol to fix errors along the way .
Seeman sound out he get inspiration from an M.C. Escher mark to think about ways to make nanomachines from DNA rather than from inorganic materials , which was the banner back in the 1980s .
[ Wiredand Christian Science Monitor ]
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