‘Molecular surgery’ snips off a single atom
A single hydrogen atom has been snipped off a molecule and then added back on again, marking the first time a single chemical
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Nanotechnology
Craig Venter succeeds in ‘genome transplant’
Call it bacterial alchemy: using a “genome transplant”, researchers have turned one species of bacterium into another. The transformation is the latest feat
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Atom trap is a step towards a quantum computer
A device that can hold hundreds of atoms in a 3D array, and image each one individually, has been developed by scientists in
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The Ideal Gene Delivery Vector: Chromallocytes, Cell Repair Nanorobots for Chromosome Replacement Therapy
The ultimate goal of nanomedicine is to perform nanorobotic therapeutic procedures on specified individual cells comprising the human body. This paper reports the
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No Femtotech Grey Goo?
I recently came across the paper Non Existence of Quantum Mechanical Self Replicating Machine by Chakrabarty and Indranil which builds on Quantum mechanical
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Molecular holograms are coming into focus
3D images of individual molecules may soon be possible thanks to a breakthrough in holography by Swiss scientists. The technique would be useful
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Our Synthetic Futures
by Rudy Rucker May 27, 2007 – The SynBio approach is onto something big—a new version of nanotechnology, which is the craft of
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Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way. In two
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Ideologies and nanotechnology
There are many debates about nanotechnology; what it is, what it will make possible, and what its dangers might be. On one level
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Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty
“In the future, everyone will have a printer like this at home,” said Hod Lipson, a professor at Cornell University, who has led
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