[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Smaller computer chips built using DNA as a template

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

FYI...


SMALLER COMPUTER CHIPS BUILT USING DNA AS TEMPLATE
from The New York Times

The recipe for a computer chip of the future may read something like this:
Take some wires. Add DNA. Stir.

In an advance that might provide a practical method for making molecular-
size circuits, the smallest possible, scientists in Israel used strands of
DNA, the computer code of life, to create tiny transistors that can
literally build themselves.

"What we've done is to bring biology to self-assemble an electronic device
in a test tube," said Dr. Erez Braun, a professor of physics at the
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and a senior
author of a paper describing the research today in the journal Science.

full text:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/science/21DNA.html
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