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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • November 23, 2003
    From the inverse discipline of bioinformatics (biology aiding in computer research), here's an article by Kenneth Chang:

    ``The recipe for a computer chip of the future may read something like this: Take some wires. Add DNA. Stir.

    ``In an advance that might provide a practical method for making molecular-size circuits, the smallest possible, scientists in Israel used strands of DNA, the computer code of life, to create tiny transistors that can literally build themselves.

    ```What we've done is to bring biology to self-assemble an electronic device in a test tube,' said Erez Braun, a professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and a senior author of a paper describing the research Friday in the journal Science.''

    Full story at News.com:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5110404.html

    Reference:
    DNA-Templated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor. Kinneret Keren, Rotem S. Berman, Evgeny Buchstab, Uri Sivan, and Erez Braun. Science Nov 21 2003: 1380-1382.

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