Dr. Rob Meagley and Dr. Andrew Bleloch present their focused summary of the recent 2012 Foresight Nanotechnology Conference, answering the question: which will be powerfull enough to intervene in aging processes first: biotechnology or nanotechnology?

1. Health Extension
What Can Nano do?

2. First Electric
Motor 1828
First MEMS
motor 1988
?

3. First Electric
Motor 1828
First MEMS
motor 1988
Biological molecular
motor
(Bacterial flagellum)

4. Today
5 Billion/ ~22nm
Atomic Scale
20 Billion/~5nm

5. Single device
100 nm
6Y
20nm Nature 437, 1128-1131 (20 October 2005)
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 242–246 (2012)
Science 335, 6064, 64 (2012)

6. $10E6 = 128 Qbit Quantum Simulator

7. arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104569
Scanning probe reading P quantum Dot Qbits 4nm spacing

8. 1/4 nm
D-Bond Qbit

9. N. Sarkar, 2013
AFM on chip
J. Micro/Nanolith. MEMS MOEMS. 7(4), 043035 (2008)
DNA lab on chip

10. In silicoprotein recognition

11. IBM Patent 2011
DNA reader on chip (model)

12. Nature Nanotechnology 5, 697–698 (2010)

13. Computational Biophysics at UIUC

14. Nature Biotechnology 30, 344–348 (2012)

15. UCSD Desktop/AMBER
DEShaw’s Anton/Desmond
Solvents,
Ligands, Motion
1E5 Atoms

16. Structure 16, 4, 8, 535 (2008)
EM +
= Ribosome at <1nm Res
Modeling

17. The Cell is FULL of stuff!
Slime mold (Dictostelium) cell showing only actin filaments
and ribosomes. (Max Plank Institute – Baumeister Group)