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‘This is the first time that systems of nano-machines, rather than individual devices have been used to perform operations, constituting a crucial advance in the evolution of DNA technology,’ said Lloyd Smith, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in a commentary also published by Nature.
Nano-Spiders: DNA Robots that Could One Day Be Walking Through Your Body | Impact Lab 2010
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Everything he needed was already injected through nano-machines into his body.
365 tomorrows » B. York : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Proteins are called nano-machines, the muscle-cell is compared to a combustion engine, the amino acid sequences in DNA are compared with human codes and language, the brain is compared with a computer and so on.
The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf William Harryman 2009
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Everything he needed was already injected through nano-machines into his body.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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The Complex episodes, which comprise about half of the episodes, deal with Section 9's investigation into the terroristic acts of The Laughing Man against certain medical companies who use nano-machines to help combat the new disease of cyber-brain sclerosis.
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If I say that human form Cylons are clones of existing humans, and that their blood is saturated with nano-machines which allow them to interact with computers, project their own perceptions on reality, and transmit their consciousness into another body upon death, I'm extrapolating from existing technology into the realm of the fictional.
The Episode That Broke Me and Other "Crossroads II" Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2007
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But researchers admit that if nano-machines are to have a future, ways must be found of getting different parts to interact as a functional whole.
Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005
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Election candidate Amber Macx hopes to save post-human mankind from the inevitable destruction of the refuge planet (and Earth as its resources are used to produce more nano-machines).
REVIEW: Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Haber/Strahan 2005
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Their reaction was to seed the planets they discovered with nano-machines, leave them to their artificial evolution, and return to discover this new 'alien' life.
Archive 2006-02-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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Their reaction was to seed the planets they discovered with nano-machines, leave them to their artificial evolution, and return to discover this new 'alien' life.
The 2005 Nebula Award: The Short Story Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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