The pages coming out of your color printer may contain hiddeninformation that could be used to track you down if you ever cross theU.S. government. Last year, an article in PC World magazine pointed out that printouts from many color laser printers contained yellow dots scattered acrossthe page, viewable only with a special kind of …
This advance is a modest advance along the path of brain scanning. Detailed brain scanning would be useful to reverse engineer the brain as an massive engineering approach to achieving human level artificial intelligence Ray Kurzweil has online articles on his thinking about this and he has his book The Singularity is Near which lays …
Advances with atomic force microscope accuracy advance us on the path towards molecular manufacturing. However, this does not achieve 0.5 angstrom accuracy as some Scanning Electron Microscopes have. It does help more labs get greater accuracy. Engineers at Purdue University have shown how researchers might better use tiny hollow fibers called “multi-walled carbon nanotubes” to …
This is not molecular manufacturing related but improved ability to detect proteins is part of enhanced protein handling that can be part of a protein based assembler. Northbrook, Illinois-based Nanosphere is preparing to launch a diagnostic system that uses nanoparticles to detect various proteins at a level of sensitivity never before seen. Scientists know that …
This work is advancing the DNA-Protein-enzyme pathway to molecular manufacturing. It is a process that is advancing toward scalable industrialized processes. Engineers build DNA ‘nanotowers’ with enzyme tools Duke engineers have added a new construction tool to their bio-nanofabrication toolbox. Using an enzyme called TdTase, engineers can vertically extend short DNA chains attached to nanometer-sized …
There is an article and report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) where there are projections of a deficit in US military spending as China’s economy grow. The assumptions in this report and the time frame is nuts. They are talking about a big deficit in 2050-2080 assuming higher than US per …
Leaders of 10 research universities from around the world will gather at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today to launch an international collaboration to use nanotechnology tools for global health and medical research. The collaboration, called GEM4, or Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine, represents an ambitious effort to apply global sourcing principles to …
Robert Bradbury provides a broad analysis of protein-based assembly He discusses recent capabilities in molecular electronics (rotaxane) and organic chemistry. He describes why the march of progress in computers, computer aided enzyme design and algorithms are lowering the cost necessary to advance protein assembly to be able to manufacture a programmable nano-assembler (PNA). Probably in …
FEI announced Aug 1, 2005 that it is shipping its new scanning/ transmission electron microscope (S/TEM), the Titan(TM) 80-300 as it publicly unveiled the new system at the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2005 Conference in Honolulu. With an all-new platform dedicated to correction and monochromator technology, the Titan S/TEM system is the world’s highest resolution commercially-available …
World’s smallest universal material testing system created researchers at Northwestern University have designed and built the first complete micromachine that makes possible the investigation of nanomechanics phenomena in real time. The findings are published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The machine, which can fit in tiny spaces …
Zyvex is important for having stated the goal of creating molecular assemblers. James Von Ehr, CEO of Zyvex, has stated that his company has a ten-year plan to build a molecular assembler, that is, a machine system capable of atomically precise manufacturing at the nanoscale. Zyvex had an earlier, even more ambitious plan that they’ve …