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DNA Assembled Nano-Transistors
Bob Vila's Hammer writes "In an article at New Scientist, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have harnessed DNA to mold a nano-transister constructed of graphite nanotubes coated in silver and gold. The carbon nanotube assembly when completed is a fully working transistor when voltage is applied. The process is ingenious, using proteins from E. Coli bacterium to bind carbon nanotubes to certain sites on strands of DNA. Then graphite nanotubes coated with antibodies connect to the proteins. Finally, silver ions are added to the solution which chemically bond with the DNA site where the protein is attached. Further refinement of the technique is required before full scale production would be efficient, but this could allow the creation of elaborate self-assembling DNA sculptures and circuitry."
(ask your mother to make you) eat this, moron.
That would be a millionth of a millimetre, no, that doesn't sound as good, a billionth of a metre, or a TRILLIONTH of a kilometre, man thats a fucking big number! (Angela Belcher, can she like burp the national anthem?)
Mares have been DNA-assembled for millenia now, and are way sexier than transistors!
Just wait for the "no such thing as chemistry, only physics" trolls. For that matter, there's no such thing as electrical engineering either.