Nanotechnology

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Sorry to post off topic but i need to find to reference to the research team that developed the molecular-sized machines that were able to travel through the blood vessels of the brain. I saw a reference several months ago but have been unable to find it again. Apparently the next phase of this project was to attach robotic hands to the devices so that they would be able to peform internal operations .

-- jason (not@important.com), May 18, 1999

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See AP Breaking News at 1:27 am this morning for related story "Robot-Performed Surgery..." Now, if they could only do seek and destroy missions to identify and repair faulty embedded chips!

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), May 18, 1999.

Sorry, but this is science fiction (or at best, completely garbled. Miniature robot manipulators exist, as do carefully configured molecules that can "lock on" to bioactive sites, but swarms of teleoperated molecules don't and probably can't).

-- Nigel Arnot (nra@maxwell.ph.kcl.ac.uk), May 18, 1999.

Try the NASA technical server - never saw anything like that on there though.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), May 18, 1999.

Jason,

Here's a place that might be helpful.

www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/16089.html

M.Moth

-- M.Moth (Derigueur2@aol.com), May 18, 1999.


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