Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised : Discovery News: "Man and machine can now be linked more intimately than ever, according to a new article in the journal ACS Nano Letters. Scientists have embedded a nano-sized transistor inside a cell-like membrane and powered it using the cell's own fuel.
The research could lead to new types of man-machine interactions where embedded devices could relay information about the inner workings of disease-related proteins inside the cell membrane, and eventually lead to new ways to read, and even influence, brain or nerve cells.
'This device is as close to the seamless marriage of biological and electronic structures as anything else that people did before,' said Aleksandr Noy, a scientist at the University of California,"
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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