Dear Group, Long ago I learned about nanotech, in fact almost 15 years ago and it is what gave me hope to try to live longer and join the life extenstion foundaton and so on. I read Eic Drexelers book THE ENGINES OF CREATION and it is the only non-fiction book that made me cry, when I read the part how nanomachines might one day be able to create perfect filet mignon steadk without killing a cow. THis is the future. Nanotech can give us peace, prosperity and immortality if we want it. There are also those who look at nanotech as stealth weapons to unleash upon enemies as artifical viruses that can dismantle someone in minutes molecule by molecule But on the positive side, this is a miracle that can undo genetic birth defects and so on. I contacted the FORESIGHT INSTITUTE in JUne of 98 seeking soloutions to the problem of my grandson with anecepthaly, to see if the technology to fix such a devastating defect was close on the horizen. THey sadly told me that not now but very easliy within 10 years. So the below breaktrhough is very exciting. -Barb
Information about Cornell University research, appearing in Science's Nanotechnology Issue on 24 November 2000, is as follows: MICROSCOPIC MACHINES: Tiny helicopters--powered by biomolecular motors and complete with rotating nanopropellers--may suggest self-propelled machines for delivering medicine to specific regions inside the human body, Cornell University researchers reported. Invisible without a microscope but mighty enough to muster eight propeller rotations per second, the new mini-copters combine fabricated components with biological molecules. An enzyme-based biomotor (ATPase) drives a nickel propeller when powered by the biochemical fuel, ATP (adenosine triphosphate). In nature, ATPase transforms food into an energy source for people, plants, and other living systems by breaking atomic bonds in ATP to generate ADP (adenosine diphosphate). The reaction cranks a cylindrical, rotor-like protein inside ATPase, thereby spinning an attached propeller. The bioengineered nanomachines may someday serve as "a pharmacy inside a cell," perhaps even functioning in concert with the physiology of living cells, according to Carlo D. Montemagno of Cornell. For more information, contact Carlo Montemagno: [email protected], 607-255-2280 607-255-3275 607-255-7541. To purchase a copy of the article, contact Karen Lentz, [email protected], 202-326-6765. *************************** Ginger Pinholster Associate Director News & Information AAAS / Science 1200 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005 Ph: (202) 326-6421 Fx: (202) 789-0455 [email protected] >>> <[email protected]> 12/04/00 06:35PM >>> Hello Ginger, I have heard that Cornel University got some working nanomachines like 5 out of 400 with helicopter bladelike structures succeeded in moving around in a living bloodstream for about 2 hours. I had a hard time tracking down where the story was published or which issue of Science it was in. Will it be in the 8 December issue or was it in another? Thanks, Barb PS I am going to have to renew my scrip to SCIENCE, let it go years ago when they got pedantic and boring. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
