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A Random Number and Neuroscience

December 18, 2008

My favorite random number generator evaluated the expression (+ 1 (random 47)) to the value “2”: Andy McKenzie, please send email me a suitable address (see the About page), and I’ll send you the book promised in the giveaway.
Andy suggested discussing potential applications of nanotechnology to neuroscience and noted a 2007 article in the journal [...]

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Real (Photonics) Technologies

December 9, 2008

On a recent expedition to collect mail, I hauled back a box that seemed to contain a brick, but instead yielded a catalog: 3 kg, 1148 glossy pages, and descriptions of about 6000 items. It’s also available as a zero-mass 336.9 MB download (or piecemeal here). Full disclosure: I have nothing to do with the [...]

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A DNA-Imaging Bottleneck

December 4, 2008

The Battelle-led roadmap, my recent talks, and Nanorex (the molecular-CAD company I’ve been advising) all emphasize structural DNA nanotechnology as a basis for developing large, complex, easily reconfigured frameworks for building composite nanosystems. This gives me a strong interest in the difficulties that hamper SDN research.

AFM images of flat DNA structures

“Folding DNA to create nanoscale [...]

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