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Pain in the Ass? Let a Molecular Robot Do the Dirty Work
In our constant effort to track inventions that will eventually lead to the birth of a new species, we always like to see news about molecular robots — especially when they’re taking orders.
As with any experiments of the this type the problem is always in how to store information inside the robot. After all, we’re talking about a nanoscale brain. A group of a scientists from across the States have begun to crack the problem by storing the robot’s orders outside of the beast itself.
In essence, the path of the robot is determined by following a DNA track to which it can bind and then sever — essentially “walking” across a 2D organic plane. When the robot hits a DNA segment that it can’t sever, this indicates “stop.”
Scientists envision the delivery of drugs on a cellular level (such as delivering a chemo payload to a cancer cell) and cellular repair to target disease and reverse the aging process.
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Posted on May 14, 2010 ()
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