Ashutosh Chilkoti dreamt about it in 1999 and yes, he was absolutely going the right way in the line of his vision. Along with his team at the Duke University the biomedical engineer has successfully created ‘genetically engineered proteins that can form erasable chemical detectors; self-grown forests of molecular “bottlebrushes” that keep themselves contamination-free; and auto-assembled DNA “towers” that could become anchors for the tiniest of devices.’
The whole concept is based on the magic of artificial elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs), short water soluble segments of proteins. These ELPs simply come out of a solution with the help of bacteria forming a solid on a slight increase in temperature. So, functional nanostructures of biological materials are giving way to bio-nanomanufacturing.
Via: sflorg
Bio-Nanomanufacturing with 'Erasible' Detectors, 'Nanobrushes' and DNA 'Highrises'
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