Article: Nanotech FTW

Nice article, another feather in the cap of those researchers in Israel. With the number of cancer sufferers out there I hope this becomes a commonplace method very soon.
 
It's exciting to see some of these frontier sciences like nanotechnology emerging with exciting future products like anti-bacterial fabrics which will give the health services sector a major defense against common bacterias.

Medicinal nanotech, like gps directed nano ambulances that deliver medicine to the exact spot will enhance health standards for all of us.
 
If anyone is interested, we are doing a number of nano things at Stellenbosch University.
We are currently two PhD students and one Masters student.
Working on solar cells, piezoelectric power supplies and gas sensors. We have limited resources but we make due with what we have.
 
StellenboschStudent said:
If anyone is interested, we are doing a number of nano things at Stellenbosch University.
We are currently two PhD students and one Masters student.
Working on solar cells, piezoelectric power supplies and gas sensors. We have limited resources but we make due with what we have.
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Nice one! I read an article about nanotechnology research in South Africa in a Popular Mechanics not so long ago, seems the government are quite interested in it.
 
Fudzy said:
Nice one! I read an article about nanotechnology research in South Africa in a Popular Mechanics not so long ago, seems the government are quite interested in it.
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We don't see to much of the money the government is spending on nanotech. But some of the other universities, like UWC, got a hefty sum and also the CSIR...
 
We're a long way away from that. Cells are the ultimate nanobots!
 
awesome stuff!
Nod said:
Why would replacing your brain with nanobots, make you immortal?
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brain is one of the few organs that can't regenerate.
 
Nod said:
Why would replacing your brain with nanobots, make you immortal?
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Your body loses the ability to replace dead and tired cells with new, healthy ones as you age... once your body becomes unable to replace all the cells that have died, you are on your way to death from old age. Replacing cells with nanobots - which can theoretically perform the same functions while being able to recycle themselves indefinitely and be indefinitely replaced by external sources if the need arises - will prevent aging, old age, and hence death.
 
Tpex said:
awesome stuff!


brain is one of the few organs that can't regenerate.
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The_Assimilator said:
Your body loses the ability to replace dead and tired cells with new, healthy ones as you age... once your body becomes unable to replace all the cells that have died, you are on your way to death from old age. Replacing cells with nanobots - which can theoretically perform the same functions while being able to recycle themselves indefinitely and be indefinitely replaced by external sources if the need arises - will prevent aging, old age, and hence death.
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That I know, but still doesn't explain the usage of nanobots. If you mentioned a neural network of some kind, that would sound more plausible. Using nanobots just sound too much like the borg :)
 
Nod said:
That I know, but still doesn't explain the usage of nanobots. If you mentioned a neural network of some kind, that would sound more plausible. Using nanobots just sound too much like the borg :)
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whats wrong with the Borg? Assimilate or Die, Biyatch! :p

LOl I see your point, and yours phenom
 
Mmmm assuming the nanobots don't start self replicating in the doomsday scenario "grey goo", I would love to take a nano bot injection.
 
Nod said:
That I know, but still doesn't explain the usage of nanobots. If you mentioned a neural network of some kind, that would sound more plausible. Using nanobots just sound too much like the borg :)
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Tpex said:
whats wrong with the Borg? Assimilate or Die, Biyatch! :p

LOl I see your point, and yours phenom
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<- points at username :p

And nanobots would imply a body-wide neural network IMO.

Palimino said:
No they’re not. Compared to true nanotech, cells are huge, clumsy, low-tech kludges. They are massive. Nanotech is atomic scale.
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Agreed, nanobots are like smaller, more efficient, fully programmable cells... like stem cells.
 
Palimino said:
No they’re not. Compared to true nanotech, cells are huge, clumsy, low-tech kludges. They are massive. Nanotech is atomic scale.
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Our nanotechnology compared to the processes in a cell is so primitive it's not even funny. "nanobots" do not even exist. Cells do operate on the atomic scale, look at things like photosynthesis and ATP.
 
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