Homo Syntheticus, Addendum A: artificial pores

By On November 19, 2003 · Leave a Comment

You see where I’m going with this…genetic sequences that express as skin cells with toxic substance-detection capability.

It starts here: as Karen Lurie writes in ScienCentral: Super Screener, Lydia Sohn and Omar Saleh have fabricated a miniscule, silicon-based sensor that functions much like a pore.

An artificial pore etched into a silicon chip. Image: Lydia Sohn, UC Berkeley

 

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