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Wisconsin Researchers Create Nano-Bio-Circuits
opencity writes "A team of scientists at UW-Madison has successfully used single bacterial cells to make tiny bio-electronic circuits. Slipping between the electrodes, the microbes, in effect, become electrical "junctions," giving researchers the ability to capture, interrogate and release bacterial cells one by one. Built into a sensor, such a capability would enable real-time detection of dangerous biological agents, including anthrax and other microbial pathogens. Two mpegs -- 11MB and 35MB -- available here. Related by scale and buzzwords: physorg.com reports scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to sneak nano-sized probes inside cell nuclei, where they can track life's fundamental processes, such as DNA repair, for hours on end. Related cool pictures and strange font choices on Nano-Bio Interface Center."
Needs "quantum" in it somewhere
Alright pal, where were you on Feb. 29th? The upper spinal cord? Nice try.
1. Release nano-bio-circuits into the Y2K bug.
2. Control America from a secret Volkswagon-- hidden in the past.
3. Emit a focused pulse which vastly promotes tooth decay.
4. Act out all of these scenarios in a VR simulation, which it turns out was just a dream you were having-- during a VR session, designed to capture data about dreaming in VR.
5. ???
6. Get linked on Slashdot front page?
Two mpegs -- 11MB and 35MB -- available here
The Slashdot Effect in 3...2...1...
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
...still won't talk, eh? Well let me introduce you to my little friend here... We like to call him "Mr. Microbe."
Noooo! I'll do anything, please!!!
10100111001
wtf? http://http//www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.h tml takes me to microsoft.com....
Taco?
Built into a sensor, such a capability would enable real-time detection of dangerous biological agents, including anthrax and other microbial pathogens.
So this means I can't mail my senator my letters?
I also enjoy interrogating bacteria.
The link for the videos is incorrect, the correct link is:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.html
Ironically, under Firefox the link forwards to Microsoft.
If they're really "Open Source" as you claim, why can't I just download them for free?
10100111001
Poor little bacteria.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.html
And the best part is that they're made of cheese!
Looks like the link has been sprayed on with Microsoft Anthrax...
You should be wearing a helmet so your brain wouldn't fall off your head again
The circuits are made of cheese dontcha know, keep away from the mouse. Alrighty then, off to watch the Packers reruns.
> where they can track life's fundamental processes, such as DNA repair, for hours on end.
But, does it work with MRTG?
your virus is having problems :(
... is futile. ;)
I fairly sure I'm not alone when I say " wtf? "
Beijing has been working on biological and chemical weapons for the last 10 years. Nanobiotechnology would only add to the Chinese arsenal.
Note that Western nations (including Russia) terminated their biological and chemical weapons programs more than 20 years ago.
Just in case, the unlikely happens. video 1 - http://www.titaniumforums.com/tracker/torrents-det ails.php?id=5
Video 2 - http://www.titaniumforums.com/tracker/torrents-det ails.php?id=6
So if I spill this stuff on my hands, do I get to see a swirling mass of fluorescence with dancing stars and arrows for hours on end? Sign me up!
hamers1 (35MB)
hamers1 (11MB)
SPF support for most open source mail servers can be found at libspf2.
Just wait until PETA gets wind of this one. I know, bacteria and viruses are not animals, but that won't stop PETA!
What keeps me going is my inertia.
... a Beowulf cluster of these!
SlashDot has many brilliant minds. Can anyone please find a way to put the feeding tube back into Terri Schiavo's body?
Peta Wilson? Wasn't that... oh never mind...
-Is the meaning of life vanity, or is vanity the meaning of life?
Was I the only one who followed the link just to find out which fonts would be considered "strange" fonts by (what I assume is) a slashdot regular?
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
How Star-Trek creates some fiction about a type of technology/species, then a few years later it's a scientific-discovery/engineering-acheivement.
I read this and instantly think, Nano-probes, intra-cellular monitoring - Borg!!!
Not that I believe the scientists working on this based their research on the Borg from ST, however the paralells are quite intriguing.
Give it a couple more years and these nano-probes will be repairing cells in addition to monitoring them - I'm joking here, although who knows what's possible in this field!
A Man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties -- Albert Einstein
Officially unveiled at the bi-mon-sci-fi-con?
Remember children, all generalizations are wrong.
Oh wait..
First I wanted to be a chef. Then I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambitions have continued to grow ever since.
when can i expect to be able to adda implant to my bloodstream that extends on the abilitys of the liver? can this system be set to look for say alcohol over a given amount and then go to work and remove any amount above that point? so that that i can say i want to become buzzed by not flat out drunk no matter how much i drink?
detection is nice, removal is the next step.
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
Who cares about them right now, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is in the Sweet Sixteen now! Go Panthers!
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
Does anyone has more details on it ? Enough blah blah blah and press talk.
There is no "comatose wife" here. You have a sack of meat with jell-o for a brain. That corpse is being kept alive by machines. The wife died 15 years ago.
Oh, I forgot, in America a fertilized ovum is a life, but it's OK to send poor black people to the electric chair and kill children in other countries. My mistake, carry on.
I love it - modded troll here, but the exact same comment above modded insightful.
When clicking the mpegs link, I get the mircosoft homepage! And I thought goaste was bad!
This sort of technology will learn about your recent drinking habits and/or when you were smoking pot...
:(
But we live in the Most Free Nation in the known universe, you say !! The government only has our best interests at heart ! *sigh* This has become the republican mantra for the last 5 years.. Whatever happened to the good old Buckley republicans ? Extinct ?
Ya, let me try falling asleep to that one at night *laugh*
R.A.S.1974
Now add "synergistic on demand agile grid XML" to it, and do your IPO on wall street.
.. replaced by a beowulf cluster of nano bio circuits. Any questions?
I didn't see how that was a troll.
So will Nabisco and Keebler and other makers of those engineered, aeresol-cheeze products now be make foods that are smarter and more useful than the consumers who eat them? This could open up all sorts of ethical issues.
that was awesome
i was LOLing and ROFFLEing
Here's a question that's food for thought. Were are the biological analogies to electronic circuitry?
"It's been a long time since Star Trek was a positive force for the sciences, too."
Obviously someone who hasn't read the book "The science of Star Trek".
OK, I've downloaded and watched the videos. I don't see any researchers 'interrogating bateria one by one'. It looks more like they are electromagnetically attracted to a conductive pathway.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Can someone find a way to put the thinking tube into the AC's head? Is there anyone else in this sadistic nation of torturers who wants the golden rule applied proactively to them?
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make install -not war
should speak up in defence of these poor exploited bacteria. Bacteria have rights and feelings too!
The first application will be non-stinky, stinky cheese.
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This will improve cohabitation with the female sex by two orders, solving all the worlds problems, Since stinky cheese is the root of all evil.
Well, That and alcohol and drugs and greed and
Jim D.
I found it interesting that the Nano/Bio Interface Center places what seems to be an equal emphasis on the development of an ethical structure applicable for these new technologies as on the research itself. Arthur Caplan, who is the director of the Center for Bioethics, used to chair the UN advisory committee on human cloning. His associate, Paul Wolpe, former Chief of Bioethics for NASA and bioethics advisor to Planned Parenthood, is another big gun in the medical ethics arena. With the heavy talent on the project and its relationship to the other projects at the center, the NBICs ethics project looks like a good bet to be a leader in shaping society's guidelines for dealing with the new developments in these emerging technologies.
Since these technologies address the basic functionality of all life in a way that will inevitably eventually become transferable, we are dealing with the real possibility of corrupting the blueprints that define biological identity. Bio engineered corn has already slipped the leash, it's only a matter of time until we start to see contamination in higher organisms. It's vital that powerful new technologies have legal and ethical guidelines in place before they are initiated. Too bad the IT community didn't see the same need 25 years ago.
billy - who uses Norton Synaptic Antivirus in the nasal inhalant form
Mod me as flamebait but I got to say - Congrats! This is probably the dumbest post I've ever seen on /.
It showes that you've got no idea what these guys did.
4Z5TX
An interesting subject and all /. has to offer is in jokes, links to the bittorrent, comments about a bad URL and some trolling. While I like OS flamewars as much as the next geek, there's more stuff that matters then MS bashing, random political trolling and video games.
In a word.
No.
You are kidding right??
really, man?? you are kidding??
dude, you scaring me!!
put the GUN DOWN!! PUT THE..
*BANG*
... at least if they don't patent the 'method of communicating between nano-bacterio-cells and Micr0$oft .Net bio-app'.
/eli
Then my PDA/phone can beep and alert me when I hit a BAC threshhold...
Error Code: beef
Its that irritating 'last wishes' thing ... some people plan ahead for the prospect of becoming a vegetable supported only by a vast array of machines.
"Because Science" is one step from "Because old book". Try "Because of my experiment testing my falsifiable assertion".