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[1] From: "Bonnett, John" <John.Bonnett@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> (41)
Subject: Re: 18.003 smart medicines?
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (25)
Subject: Re: 18.003 smart medicines?
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:58:05 +0100
From: "Bonnett, John" <John.Bonnett@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
Willard,
This month's Scientific American contains an article devoted to Synthetic
Life. One application
that is mentioned is medicine. It's available on-line:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=0009FCA4-1A8
F-1085-94F483414B7F0000
Best,
John Bonnett
John Bonnett, Ph.D.
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National Research Council of Canada
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 07:21:55 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: smart medicines?
I would greatly appreciate references to authoritative but non-technical
discussions of so-called "smart medicines", i.e. compounds consisting of
DNA-encoded nano-computers that are programmable to take action depending
on the environments in which they find themselves.
Yours,
WM
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:58:53 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 18.003 smart medicines?
From: Vika Zafrin <vika@wordsend.org>
Date: 7 May 2004 8:09:44 am EDT
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Willard writes:
I would greatly appreciate references to authoritative but non-technical
discussions of so-called "smart medicines", i.e. compounds consisting of
DNA-encoded nano-computers that are programmable to take action depending
on the environments in which they find themselves.
Not sure if this fits your bill, but Erowid -- the largest online
repository of information on psychoactives of all kinds -- does have a
Smart Drugs vault. Their definition of what a smart drug is may differ
from yours, but they're worth a look.
Each substance has a vault; the information in that vault will almost
definitely be partly techhnical, but will contain anything they've been
able to find, including submitted experience reports from people taking it,
interactions, etc.
http://www.erowid.org/smarts/smarts.shtml
Best,
-Vika
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