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I wasn't sure which article to submit, since this was on gimodo, popular science, and various other places, but this (albeit behind a paywall) is the original j

• anigbrowl 12y ago
  That's always the best choice. Here's the paper itself: http://life-sciences.biu.ac.il/files/life-sciences/media/nnano.2014.58.pdf http://life-sciences.biu.ac.il/files/life-sciences/media/nna... Searching on the title and appending 'filetype:pdf' for Google will often return a preprint or a copy from the authors' institutional website. As for the content - wow, amazing work. I'm no biotechnologist but this seems like the gateway to an algorithmic approach to medicine. I wonder if it could be turned around to measure intra-cellular processes and send out signals by producing nonreactive chemical tracers...oh yes, it's addressed on page 4. How long before we see biological botnets? Fascinating stuff.
  • anon4 12y ago
    > biological botnets What, you mean parasites that control their host's behaviour in order to propagate themselves? Those already exist. Granted, they don't mine bitcoins just yet.
    • zwegner 12y ago
      Yep. One of my favorite examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis Part of a pretty cool Wikipedia category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mind-altering_parasites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mind-altering_parasit...
    • anigbrowl 12y ago
      Engineered by us, I meant. Bitcoin mining was exactly the example I was thinking of.