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?