Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Michigan made a surprising discovery. Nanoparticles, small particles of inorganic materials, can behave like proteins--the building blocks of living systems. Like proteins, the nanoparticles self-assemble into shapes--complex microscale chains, sheets, shells and helixes--and they can perform some of the same biological functions as protein molecules.
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Nano particles mimic protein
Re: Nano particles mimic protein
That's really interesting.
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Re: Nano particles mimic protein
I see it as the foundation of self-replicating, as whatever causes protein to self replicate can be determined and as nano-paricles display the same propensity, it can applied to nano-particles and then maybe conglomerations of nano-particles to construct yet larger objects, leading to dialling up a plate of Spaghetti.