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Robobug: Scientists Clad Bacterium With Graphene To Make a Working Cytobot
Zothecula writes By cladding a living cell with graphene quantum dots, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) claim to have created a nanoscale biomicrorobot (or cytobot) that responds electrically to changes in its environment. This work promises to lay the foundations for future generations of bio-derived nanobots, biomicrorobotic-mechanisms, and micromechanical actuation for a wide range of applications. "UIC researchers created an electromechanical device — a humidity sensor — on a bacterial spore. They call it NERD, for Nano-Electro-Robotic Device. The report is online at Scientific Reports, a Nature open access journal."
How much of the 'quantum' do we truly understand?
Do we know anything about the other side of the 'quantum dot'?
How do we know there isn't any 'quantum wisdom' hiding on the other side?
By cladding a living cell with things that comes with quantum dots we could be hooking that living cell up with some kind of superduper 'quantum brain' which is so powerful that it can easily defy the fabric of space-time itself !
What if that superduper 'quantum brain' reaches over to this world we live in through those 'quantum dots' and supercharged that living cell?
Why are the so-called 'scientists' keep on carrying out experiments without first thinking of the possible consequences?