This idea is impractical, unrealistic, and not at all what we're working on in cutting edge nanotechnology. These conversations of how to build tiny robots are best left in the 1990s where they belong.
You are made of tiny, self-replicating, self-repairing robots called cells. For several years now, the best of us in nanotechnology have realized that seeking to make mechanical versions of cells is... inefficient. Our task now is to find ways to engineer and work with biology such that it can be seamlessly in
It's not your father's biology either! Probably no field of science is changing as fast as biology right now. It's like being in computer science in the 1980s.
In many ways, we're riding just behind the wave of that revolution in biology. The tools used and research approach is a combination of what could broadly be described as MEMS, CMOS, cell biology, and protein engineering. This is a very significant break from the past, where you would never use biochemical or biological engineering as part of an elec
I have to admit I am extremely intrigued by your posts regarding nanotech and biology merging. Are there any online info resources about this cutting edge stuff to read about?
I'm not surprised to find that it's more effective to use cellular machinery that has been time-tested over hundreds of millions of years to perform work for us rather than trying to reinvent some newer, much crappier wheel.
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This idea is impractical, unrealistic, and not at all what we're working on in cutting edge nanotechnology. These conversations of how to build tiny robots are best left in the 1990s where they belong.
You are made of tiny, self-replicating, self-repairing robots called cells. For several years now, the best of us in nanotechnology have realized that seeking to make mechanical versions of cells is... inefficient. Our task now is to find ways to engineer and work with biology such that it can be seamlessly in
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Besides, my father was a biologist, so I think you have it backwards.
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It's not your father's biology either! Probably no field of science is changing as fast as biology right now. It's like being in computer science in the 1980s.
In many ways, we're riding just behind the wave of that revolution in biology. The tools used and research approach is a combination of what could broadly be described as MEMS, CMOS, cell biology, and protein engineering. This is a very significant break from the past, where you would never use biochemical or biological engineering as part of an elec
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