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Caltech researcher Paul Rothemund folds DNA strands into an origami of nanosize shapes and patterns
April 11, 2008 | 4
"I feel like science, as a creative discipline, is a lot like art...and a lot of scientists have what might be considered an artistic temperament," Rothemund says....[More]
"The choice of images was also political," Rothemund says. "I was counseled over and over by one person to make an American flag, and by others to make a representation of 'Caltech'....[More]
Rothemund's work is probably one of the few that will at once bring to mind artist and pop culture phenom Andy Warhol, along with the duo James Watson and Francis Crick, the co-discoverers of DNA's double helix structure....[More]
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Add CommentHas anyone considered the implication that if you can do this programming for a soup of materials, you could do the same thing by programming a cellular organism to deliver the instructions, and use it to construct new neural pathways, etc... This might possibly be a way to "rewire" severed nerves, and integrate neural pathways with connections to external input/output devices. I know it's probably way out in the future, but this is quite intriguing.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthis does not take into account the separation between drops. it has to be assumed that there is a line drops in each vertical space. that being said it also assumes that each space is on the same drop cycle.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSo what does this have to do with Aztec heart size???
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