18.006 smart medicines

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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

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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
    To: humanist@Princeton.EDU

    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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