MIT develops "revolutionary" nanoprinter: nano-devices for everyone!

MIT's new nano-printing method called Supramolecular Nano-Stamping (SuNS) "could enable" mass production of nano-devices. Now, SuNS uses a process of DNA self-assembly where each strand becomes an exact duplicate of its master increasing print output dramatically allowing the mass production of very complex nano-scale patterns. The immediate candidate for SuNS is the DNA microarray — a nano-device which is used to diagnose and understand illnesses such as Alzheimer's, AIDS, and certain types of cancer. Producing these little bastages now requires more than 400 printing steps at the cost of $500 per microarray — SuNS will reduce this to 3 steps at a cost of less than $50 per unit. So, add SuNS to the growing list of self-replicating robots, self-wiring supercomputers, and chip assembling nanobots and reassure us we have nothing to fear…please, is anyone there…anyone?

[distantbody @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

Judging by the picture, it doesnt look very darn precise ;)

[Asher @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

I would like to welcome our new Nano Overlords. And wish them well while they take over planet Earth.

[Samuel Lago @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

Those MIT kids are pretty clever, they're always in the news