«Well, at the end of Metal Gear Solid you kill Liquid Snake, who is your brother and a clone of Big Boss, but Revolver Ocelot, who had his arm cut off my a ninja, transplants Liquid's arm onto his stump and
the nanomachines in Liquid's blood take over Ocelot's brain so the two now share one body.»
The effectiveness of biological systems and
nanomachines in capturing light and transporting energy is owing to the highly ordered nanoscale architecture of photoactive molecules.
Most of
the nanomachines in your body — by that, I mean biological machines like enzymes — don't last more than a few hours.
Picture this: a movie revealing the inner workings of a cell or showing
a nanomachine in action.
«Moving
the nanomachine in the desired direction is not trivial,» says Famulok.
Not exact matches
«A basic understanding of the coupling process will give us insight into the construction of
nanomachines,
in which torque transfer is absolutely essential,» said Professor Hartmut Loewen of the University of Düsseldorf.
Nanomachines are modeled after microorganisms found
in the body.
In place of turbochargers and high - octane gas, the scientists tweaked their engine design and used an additive to speed the oxidation of hydrogen peroxide into fuel to create
nanomachines 350 times more powerful than any previously built.
Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic «
nanomachines» that may someday be used to deliver lifesaving medications or test the quality of drinking water
in remote regions of the world.
Researchers and science fiction authors have worried about self - replicating
nanomachines going rogue and consuming the entire planet, covering it
in «grey goo ``.
A
nanomachine is a tiny device of less than a micron (one millionth of a meter, or about four one - hundred - thousandths of an inch)
in size that scientists hope will soon be able to carry out a variety of medical and research functions, such as the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs, more efficiently and quickly than is possible today.
The new findings appear
in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and represent an important step toward the development of molecular components for the assembly of
nanomachines: For the greater the degree of control available, the more complex are the functions that can be performed by such structures.
In the review article, the researchers outline the superior properties of DNA nanostructures, and how these features enable the development of efficient biological DNA -
nanomachines.
The same molecular power packs that fuel sperm
in their journey through the uterus and to a fallopian tube might be copied and used to keep the
nanomachines running once they reach their targets.
At built -
in junctions, the
nanomachine should decide which way to go.
Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, says the ability to tune friction would be helpful
in developing
nanomachines — tiny robots built from components the size of single molecules.
This discovery could aid
in developing
nanomachines, built from components the size of single molecules.
«There's a big effort to understand friction and control it, because it's one of the limiting factors for
nanomachines, but there has been relatively little progress
in actually controlling friction at any scale,» Vuletic says.
Three pioneers
in the development of
nanomachines — Jean - Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg), J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University), and Bernard Feringa (University of Groningen)-- were awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The 2016 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry, awarded to creators of
nanomachines, has renewed interest
in the field.
This is
in contrast to any living organism, where dynamic biological
nanomachines are ubiquitous and where they accomplish functions that are readily observed at the macro scale.
When a lot of sugar is
in the blood, the
nanomachine sops it up and swells
in size.
Nanomachines could take over a variety of tasks
in future.
Chemist Jianzhong Du of Tongji University
in Shanghai, China, invented this
nanomachine.
Ribosomes are a complex of molecules found
in all cells, and they're sometimes referred to as
nanomachines because they synthesize all of the proteins our cells need.
Heldwein zoomed
in on a protein
nanomachine common to all herpesviruses.
Nanochondria:
Nanomachines existing inside living cells, participating
in their biochemistry (like mitochondria) and / or assembling various structures.
It instead opts for a magical whatsit
in the form of
nanomachines that can do anything: healing all sorts of wounds, creating matter from seemingly nothing, and turning the population of the small town into super-powered drones that do Computer Will's bidding.
It's revealed
in Metal Gear Solid 4 that Vamp isn't actually a supernatural, immortal vampire: it was
nanomachines that gave him his powers all along.
Not only that, Ocelot — biological son of The Boss — called upon
nanomachines and psychotherapy
in an attempt to outfox The Patriots» AI into believing he really was Liquid.
Another thing to note is how
in Metal Gear Solid 4, soldiers and PMCs who are under the use of
nanomachines can not simply call The Patriots by name - their
nanomachines force them to refer to the Patriots as «La li lu le lo».
This brings him to a part of the Middle East caught
in a war between private military companies, and he becomes a soldier
in a war where AI and
nanomachines are just as much weapons as humans are.
Cooked up by the Pentagon, FOXDIE is a retrovirus designed to cause heart attacks by zeroing
in on specific targets, locking on to their DNA, and using
nanomachines to do a number on their heart.
Each has abilities that range from healing nearby teammates and performing a ground pound, to conjuring up
nanomachine swarms that seek out enemies or calling
in a huge artillery barrage that precisely targets all nearby aliens.
The story is flying swarms of «
nanomachines» using «genetic algorithms» (so they evolve) and «distributed intelligence» (so the individual «bots can act cohesively as a swarm) become killers (
in order to reproduce somehow) and learn to communicate and then learn how to make themselves look like people and also take over people to make them do their bidding (along with gaining super-strength) but luckily they have bacterial components, so the good guys release a bacteria killing virus to win (I think), My dad actually stopped the tape at one point when Crichton for no reason writes about the good guy deciding whether he should drink tea or coffee (it sure was an exciting decision) and chooses tea because it has more caffeine (which is really untrue according to what I've known all my life as well as coffeefaq.com).
Nanomachines embedded
in the glass itself detect the CO2 and make it seem like it is warmer!