Bio Lego -MIT & Harvard Scientists Create Living Building Blocks


	Bio Lego -MIT & Harvard Scientists Create Living Building Blocks

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e060b595-b79f-4e0a-8cba-1555ddad1c86/E755CA42-425E-427A-A23E-4F78C9D2B96E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/bio-lego--mit-h.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/bio-lego--mit-h.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/bio-lego--mit-h.html">Organs are important.  This
means it kind of sucks if you're waiting for one, because everyone is
already using theirs, but recent research by MIT and Harvard researchers will help usher in an age where you can have them made to order.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/bio-lego--mit-h.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailygalaxy.com/img/74AEE6BC-30F6-42B4-9581-369970FF7951" alt="03legoart" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/bio-lego--mit-h.html">Building large structures with <SPAN id="i8-m0" class="misspell">nanocomponent</SPAN> by <SPAN id="i8-m1" class="misspell">nanocomponent</SPAN> would take a prohibitively long time - <SPAN id="i8-m2" class="misspell">nanothingies</SPAN>
are very small, you see.  There is a great deal of interest in
self-assembling structures, where you can almost bake up the desired
shape by your choice of initial ingredients and shaking it until you
get what you want.  This technique has already met with success in
computer applicable elements, and now a team of MIT and Harvard
researchers led by Professor <SPAN class="misspell" id="i8-m">Ali Khademhosseini </SPAN>of Harvard are applying it to biological samples.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/bio-lego--mit-h.html">The self-assembly is based on "the thermodynamic tendency of multiphase liquid–liquid systems<BR id="onpq" />
to
minimize their contact surfaces", the most awesomely complicated way of
saying "oil and water don't mix" possible.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E755CA42-425E-427A-A23E-4F78C9D2B96E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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