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Stayed up till 2:00 AM last night reading the Science article by Liao and Seeman on their artificial DNA programmable nanoassembler. After reading the article carefully enough to understand how the machine worked, I wrote a review of it in the ribosomes news group. Also submitted a Slashdot story about it.

I hope that we are getting close to an exciting new age of creativity and economic innovation involving molecular assemblers, perhaps something akin to the golden years of the microprocessor and the personal computer. It's about time, it's almost 2005 for Pete's sake.