Ned Seeman makes ‘nanorobotic’ arm to operate within DNA sequence
This is a major development for enabling mechanical control at the molecular level. Robert Freitas (who wrote nanomedicine) told Kurzweilai.net that he felt this was an evolutionary step towards the creation of a factory-style ‘mechanical ribosome’ system that could assemble biological parts via positional assembly. New York University chemistry professor Nadrian C. Seeman and his …