Israeli scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to use proteins to make nanotube logic circuits. The researchers created a field effect transistor on a silicon substrate by employing DNA bonding and protein recognition techniqures. The DNA functions as scaffolding, guiding the nanotube into the proper position. Although the Israeli team attempted to create 45 FETs, they only succeeded in creating 14 working devices. Many of the nanotubes turned out to be useless metallic conductors, rather than being semiconductors. The metallic conductors could not be shut off, and always conducted. This technique could, in theory, be scaled up to make multiple devices, but the process is probably too unwieldy, cumbersome, and delicate to be used for volume production. Moreover, scientists will have to find ways of creating only semiconducting nanotubes–current techniques create batches of metallic and semiconducting tubes mixed together. Nevertheless, this technique does highlight the complexity of modern immune systems, which use antibodies to react to antigens.
USER COMMENTS 43 comment(s)
|Prey (4:35pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
Just like in Crichton's book Prey. Panic the swarm will come !!!!!!! – by fruitloop
|Israli? (4:56pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
How did the towel heads become so technically advanced? Did they trade there camels for computers?? – by Donkeysex
|Israli? (5:05pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
Israelis are not ragheads, please get your derogatory remarks correct. You have your apples and your oranges mixed up. – by fruitloop
|Jews (5:13pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
alright when did the Jews become so technologically advanced? – by cmptths
|WTF>>>>>> (5:18pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
Mostly Indian scientits were used on an American theory on Israeli soil.
It's a human achievement. Who gives a rat's behind who invented it?
This is technology not politics. Leave your hatreds behind.
|cmptths (5:21pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
lol if u do a little research you will find that jews are the ones that created the atom bomb in WWI, they knew how to do it but they purposly caused problems in their studies because they were POW's and if they created a working atom bomb then america would be dead, we owe our lives to them. einstein simple got it cause he created the bomb first, not that he knew how to do it first. – by roman-catholic
|Actually! (5:53pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
The true God Acwaduca appointed space aliens from the righteous Planet Mary with advanced technology wiped out the wicked false jews in order to save the true jews.
Some blacks are ravenous devils, while other blacks are decendants of God's Holy angels ( they just don't know it yet!) For those blacks whom God has blessed for the next life when the advanced race from the Planet Marry comes to reanimate all the Holy blacks and kill all the wicked white people who conspire with the devil blacks.
As for these wicked Jews, they are not the decendants of Abraham, but false devils from the Planet of Evil, who made war with the Holy Black Angels.
Most of the Native Americans are decendants from the true Jews who fled persecution when the seed of Abraham was driven out long ago.
– by Ben – Abel
|quasi-living systems? (6:41pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
Will stuff like this potentially lead to systems that are part living, part machine? – by Tall Tiimbers
|cmptthsanaanite (8:05pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
What kind of biggoted ignoramus are you?
What can you possibly mean by, “alright when did the Jews become so technologically advanced?”
Are you referring to one of those Jew boneheads like:
or a whole list of other equally backwards dullards?
I'm just adopted, so I'm not incumbered by Mosaic inhibitions. If you were within arm's reach of me, you'd be just a fart in a hurricane.
Oh, and if you have a pair of Levi's that you like a lot, you can thank ANOTHER Jew — Levi Strauss. – by Joshua
|Reply to donkeysex (8:07pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
Re: your posting – “Israli? (4:56pm EST Fri Jan 09 2004)
Allow me to pour salt on your wounds. See and read up on the worlds fastest (by several orders of magnitude) optical digital signal processor developed by an Israeli company.
|your so racist (12:06am EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
first, the term “ragheads” usually is used as a derogitory term for arabs, not jews. secondly stop being so darn racist. u freaking bush lovers buying his “kill all the arabs” rehtoric. we're all people, blatant racism is pointless and counterproductive. – by JZ
|Nanotube chip developed which is a great success. (12:09am EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
Nanotubes circuits will provide us Rams 10,000 times denser.
Here is the article about the Nanotube successfully made
– by Sanjay
|JZanaanite (12:30am EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
Talk about biggoted and biased. Your hate-mongering stereotype of “Bush lovers” as being anyone who doesn't agree with you is offensive and repugnant. You are just as bad as the “Donkey” anti-semite. There is not an iota of difference between the two of you. You are exactly the same. – by Joshua
|Don't you get it? (5:59am EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
This is nothing to do with jews, hebrews, muslims, americans..etc
Its about transistors…
Get reality checks, everyone. In the mean time let the REAL geeks move on. – by Soothsayer
|Stop talking religion in these forums or please type write anything! (6:32am EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
Stop talking religion in these forums or please type write anything! – by Mule
|Stop talking religion in these forums or please type write anything! (6:32am EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
Stop talking religion in these forums or please don't write anything! – by Mule
|joshua (8:20am EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
Is levi strauss another jue sending jobs ofer seas? – by an american
|re: Joshua (10:58am EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
You are lowering yourself by calling others names.
Back on topic:
This technonolgy would have been great a decade back, but time to move forward… not backwards. – by w00t w00t
|You all are doomed (12:06pm EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
Make your time. – by Skynet
|Lmao (12:33pm EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
I think you're all idiots:)
The morons posting anti-semantic comments to get a reaction out of the hot-headed anti-racist, racists….
Yup, they only say racist things to get a reaction out of you, lol.
Yet, you're so RACIST against people who are racist, you just have to give them the reaction they want, you damn hypocrites:) – by ………………..
|LEFT OUT (1:09pm EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
DAMNIT IT JUST AIN'T NO FUN BEING AN AVERAGE WHITE GUY.AND DOES THIS MEAN I NEED A BASING DIAGRAM TO GET A FLU VACCINE? – by APPATHETIC
|ACTUALLY (6:58pm EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
if you read it over and over “several” times “by………” makes pretty good sense. That's sorta' what I was saying to JZ. And this has nothing to do with “religion”. That's just downright ridiculous. It's NOT ONLY about what Israeli scientists have DEVELOPED, but about the way Israeli scientists are TREATED. Right off the bat the second post was a slur. And to “an american”– Do you think I'm not on your side? Levi Stauss started Levi's but it's become a big corporation, and I have no idea who's on the board of directors now. Probably not many “jue”s. The reason that Levi is going overseas, is NAFT/GATT. It made it tough for MANY companies in America (capital 'A') when that G*d damned traitorous piece of legislation was signed. Company after company, almost daily, are being forced to overseas production just to keep the doors open. – by Joshua
|Whats religion got do with it? (10:56pm EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
The Russians were the world leaders in nuclear physics. Germany second, with the UK then America.
America stole all scientists, gave them a pardon for their war crimes and started blowing up their own country to see if it worked.
Then they droped a bomb on Hiroshima, under theguise it was to end a war that was already ending.
Then the day after they blow up Nagasaki, in America's own little hollocaust.
The Germans killed 1M Brits in the blitz, so we (Allies) firebombed them and killed 10M.
We fell back from France, and back stabbed the Russians. US pressured us not to help Russia on the eastern front so we stalled and twiddled our thumbs. – by anqe
|continued (11:10pm EST Sat Jan 10 2004)
so what has a war 50years ago got to do with DNA transistors or religion? – by anqe
|anqst (12:08am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
Are you drunk?
YOU are the only one who's brought up WWII. And you're riling against youSELF!!!
Man, YOU are WACKED! – by Joshua
|subject (12:33am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
a comment on a comment on a comment on a comment that had nothing to do with the topic at hand. and i've added to the moronic discussion straying away from the real subject. thank you once again, loyal geek commenters, for rendering so many of my brain cells useless.
q: will nanotechnology be able to reconstruct my failing brain? – by s[rcogorf
|Brain food (3:01am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
I think this is the right way to go for nano research. Ya gotta find a way to get the goobers to somehow self assemble in an organized fashion and proteins seem to be a good bet.
Motorola claims to have developed a process for the assembly of nano tubes in vast arrays used as FED display emitters. I have yet to see a decription of the process but Motorola has recently announced they will start offering consumer large screen displays of the common variety, so they have interest in commercializing. I hope they continue R&D with nano technology in displays.
Way over my head at this time, but I enjoy reading about it all the same. Figure 4-5 years out and these crazy ideas are going to be coming into the mainstream. nanotech NOVRAM, neural nets and displays.
Good reads as always Sander! – by Zeke
|meh (5:39am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
*kicks feet on desk and laughs as Geeks discuss their political beliefs and boundaries* racism is what our world is everyone, there wouldn't be nations or countries or political boundaries if there wasn't racism or prejudice. Russia is Russia because the people who live there are Russian. Mexico is Mexico because Mexicans live there. – by adam
|Do you think (5:41am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
some variation of this process could be used to “grow” cyborg devices right inside the body. The pill you took this morning could be the x-ray vision device that's woven into your retina this afternoon!
“I'll camping by the door to the girl's locker room for several hours…” – by Joshua
|typo (5:44am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
I'll camping… should read I'll be camping… – by Joshua
|adam (5:49am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
Let's see now, so that would mean that all the virgins live in Virginia!
Nobody hates us… I'm an Eskimo. We smile a LOT. – by Larry the fisherman.
|For [Insert Deity Here]'s Sake (7:52am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
Why the fuck do you always have to bring politics and religion into everything? It's pathetic and sad. I was reading down, hoping for some insight or links to other sites like this article, and most of the replies were angry responses.
I've said it before a few hundred times, and I'll write it here now:
Religion is the cause of, and the self-appointed solution to, the majority of the world's problems. – by Bringer of Truth
|… (8:11am EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
can't argue with that last one, cos' its true.
(WWII came into it cos' some fool was being racist about jews and talking about nukes) – by anqe
|Religion & nanotube transistors (1:04pm EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
With the risk of repeating what others said before, religion and nanotube transistors have NOTHING to do with each other.
But I must refer to the last point made … History teaches us that religion is THE source for mankind affliction. In the name of God, we're allowed to disgrace, to destroy, and to kill other human beings … so that we feel good about ourselves … What a miserable joke …
When would you learn that God was created by humans, and not vice versa!!! – by Mike G.
|ABC (3:50pm EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
Religion was borne from nanotubes.
Infidels ! – by qwert
|qwert (4:10pm EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
If you consider transhumanism a religion then i agree – by dolf
|Our own little holocaust (4:59pm EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
yeah, hell of a holocaust, killing 1/4 million of the people in a country whose govornment had killed our citizens for no other reason than world domination, and had slaughtered over 100,000 innocent chinese citizens, also in the name of world domination…..yeah, go ahead and compare that to the psychotic murder of millions of jews in the name of world domination……
America did what we did for the same reason that we overthrow governments now. non-democratic goverments try to take over neighboring countries, and the innocent civilians get killed in the process. If every country was a democracy…..then there would be no innocents in war, and those that die, would probably deserve it…… – by DixonCider
|Israel's scientific prowessq (6:27pm EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
I think Israel realizes that it is outnumbered by 1000 to 1 (world 6 000 000 000 , jews israelis hebrews zionists 6 000 000 )
Plus it knows that there can be another holocaust So perhaps it is getting ready , girding itself !
– by jesuschristislord
|-again- (8:00pm EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
Do you think some variation of this process could be used to “grow” cyborg devices right inside the body. The pill you took this morning could be the x-ray vision device that's woven into your retina this afternoon!
“I'll be camping by the door to the girl's locker room for several hours…” – by Joshua
|Re:Joshua (9:43pm EST Sun Jan 11 2004)
Can we say Deus Ex: Invisible War? Lol – by ………………..
|peace n love = progress (1:57am EST Mon Jan 12 2004)
people r meant to b loved,
n things r meant to b used.
The reason for all the problems in todays world r bcos,
people r being used and
thing r being loved – by itdoesntmatter
|This thread is hillarious (2:41am EST Mon Jan 12 2004)
Donkeysex, you rock.
Its always fun to drop a comment like that in a thread like this and watch all hell break loose as the topic gets totaly changed. LOL
People….. LOL – by Jesus The Liar
|Here for Technology not Folklore (11:21am EST Mon Jan 12 2004)
This is a little more interesting than the usual Microsoft vs Linux rant.
Especially that Ben-Abel guy. Flame on. – by RCAman