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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.
before the slashdot effect can be observed, you first need working links... http://http//www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.h tml
should be
http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.html
least i was able to snag the files at decent speeds :P , commence with the effect
wtf? http://http//www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.h tml takes me to microsoft.com....
Taco?
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.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.html
And the best part is that they're made of cheese!
your virus is having problems :(
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
hamers1 (35MB)
hamers1 (11MB)
SPF support for most open source mail servers can be found at libspf2.
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.
It's Firefox. If you enter a term that's not valid, like two https, it searches for it, then takes you to the first result, which is oddly microsoft.
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
How Star-Trek creates some fiction about a type of technology/species, then a few years later it's a scientific-discovery/engineering-acheivement.
Yes.
It's almost as if the scientific research precedes Star Trek... or as if a million-bajillion other science fiction stories had similar ideas that Star Trek could copy...
Don't give Star Trek too much credit. About all they've ever invented is terminology, much of which is surprisingly crappy if you actually learn about the fields they are raping for ideas. (Metals given ceramic names, elements given chemical names and vice versa, "compounds", "alloys", and other such terms mixed freely with no regard for what they mean; if such things were isolated occurances one could argue about term drift, but the fact is you have to search for terminology used correctly in later Trek.) It's been a long time since Star Trek was on the cutting edge of anything.
Don't learn your science from Star Trek, either. It leaves you an ignorant, easily-mislead scientific fool. I wouldn't say this except that it is clear too many people have. It's been a long time since Star Trek was a positive force for the sciences, too.
"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?"
No, for that effect you have to drink it.
billy - bring on the Nanoberry Quantum Koolaide
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
Obviously someone who hasn't read the book "The science of Star Trek".
That's about as useful as "The science of the Bible". It's easy to go in after the fact and justify whether or not something can be made to fit science. It's harder to examine the evidence at hand and decide whether or not the bible/Star Trek came to the right conclusion.
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