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Nanotech Motors, Biotransistors, DNA Fractals

Posted by Zonk on from the body-wars dept.

FleaPlus writes "The American Institute of Physics has a news bulletin describing a couple of interesting nanotech advances. The first is the smallest electric motor in the world, made by Alex Zettl's group at UC Berkeley. The second is a single-protein wet biotransistor. Additionally, Technology Research News reports on algorithmic self-assembly of DNA Sierpinski triangles, by Erik Winfree's group at Caltech."

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  1. Re:definition of "nano-" by argent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, the DNA assembly of Sirepinski triangles is definately a nanoscale operation.

  2. Re:I Disagree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're talking about over 100 years' worth of innovations though - railways were invented before the Victorian age even started, and antibiotics weren't used until the 1930s.

    Look around you and ask yourself if what you see was available in 1905. I'm sitting in front of a Universal Machine capable of working out any calculable problem. I can talk to anyone and everyone I know without leaving my chair. I could look at the entire human genome and check to see if I share any sections with a chicken. I can listen to a perfect reproduction of an orchestra playing halfway across the world. If I had the money, I could sit on a rocket and look at the Earth from space.

    How radical do you want change to be?