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Thursday, October 17, 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/573729p-4492162c.html Scientists look to nature for better man-made devices SCOTT R. BURNELL, UPI Science News Nanotechnology research is focusing increasingly on DNA, nature's own molecular-scale instructions, as a possible building block for man-made devices, scientists said Saturday at a conference. Nanoscience, which seeks to work with matter at the molecular or even atomic scale, is not particularly interested in the genetic data encoded in the double-helix structure, said Nadrian Seeman, a chemistry professor at New York University in New York City. Instead, scientists are investigating the molecule, which is only 2.5 nanometers wide, for the relative ease with which they can alter its chemical pattern for architectural tasks, Seeman told attendees at the 10th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology....
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