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Wisconsin Researchers Create Nano-Bio-Circuits

Posted by timothy on from the invasion-of-the-cheese-menace dept.

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."

10 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. Not enough buzzwords by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Needs "quantum" in it somewhere

  2. Interrogate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alright pal, where were you on Feb. 29th? The upper spinal cord? Nice try.

  3. WTf? by t0ny747 · · Score: 3, Informative

    wtf? http://http//www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.h tml takes me to microsoft.com....

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    1. Re:WTf? by teknomage1 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Since http isn't a valid toplevel domain name, mozilla style browsers do a google search on http. Then it jumps to the first result which happens to be microsoft.com .

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  4. Bad link! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  5. Correct Link to Video by Ken@WearableTech · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/hamers.html

  6. Torrents by gamepro · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  7. bittorrents available by wayne · · Score: 4, Informative
    Bittorrents are currently available at:

    hamers1 (35MB)
    hamers1 (11MB)

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  8. Strange fonts? by Ligur · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

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  9. Re:microsoft owns http:// now?! by Bri3D · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.