Switchable Net Woven from DNA

virtualXTC writes "A team of US researchers have managed to make a woven DNA mesh that expands and contracts. By coating the net in silver they can make nano-wire lattice in which individual wires can be lengthened or shortened using a short snippet of ssDNA to create a nano-switch."

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I believe Tycho said it best.

[devphil]

In relation to another recent weird-science happening:

If you already knew that human beings were doing this kind of thing, by which I mean the spider-goat thing, my hat's off to you. We never heard about this shit until a week ago, which is surprising because when someone squeezes some Goddamn spider silk out of a goat's titty it's the kind of thing one expects to hear about. Industry is clacking its hideous mandibles with excitement over the applications of readily available spider silk, focused largely on the swinging and thwipping sectors of our economy. I'm making goofy jokes about it because I think that we are a young species that often fucks with things we don't know how to unfuck. It's a coping mechanism.

from Penny Arcade