December 19, 2009
Part 2 of a series on the history and prospects of advanced nanotechnology concepts, prompted by the upcoming 50th anniversary of Feynman’s historic talk, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”.
John Stewart Mill Debugging defects in human thought
As cognitive psychologists know, we human beings suffer from multiple, systematic cognitive biases, aberrations of intellectual vision that [...]
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February 4, 2009
Science recently reported a research advance linked to a series of topics I’ve covered:
Self-assembled systems
George Church’s roadmap for radically lowering the cost of DNA
Structural DNA nanotechnology for modular molecular composite nanosystems
Cryo-electron microscopy for visualizing large self-assembled structures
The advance is an improved structural map of the core of the self-assembled protein machinery that some bacteria use [...]
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