Tuesday, August 09, 2005

 

Enslaving Bacteria

Slashdot reports that folks at UMass have discovered a bacterium that ingests metal and excretes nanowires (3 nm to 5nm). So all we need to do is spread a little metal jam on a silicon chip and get the bacteria to line up and eat in the correct direction and we've got ourselves a bonanza.

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