Bio-Nanoprinting: Digitizing the Language of Life

Even before either nanoprinting or bioprinting becomes mainstream, some of the world's top minds are already well on the way to merging the two technologies.  Imagine a world in which new life forms and new biological chemistry could be transmitted and assembled via the Internet.  Why would we want to do this?  How could it be accomplished in the near future?  What are the implications?  You're about to find out.

In the October 2012 issue of Trends, we discussed Nanoprinting .....

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