Nanomedicine Art Gallery

Computing technology is now entering a new era of miniaturization, as engineers begin to design and assemble computers employing molecule-scale components. At the limits of this technology lie entire computers that will be smaller than cells and yet have the computing capacity of today’s large mainframes. Future medical microorganisms incorporating these molecular-scale computers, or nanocomputers, as part of their structure will be able to perform extremely sophisticated biological repairs. Since these artificial organisms will be so unlike any in nature today, we will probably think of them as microscopic machines rather than as organisms. We could call them cell repair devices.

This image is a conceptual drawing of a nanotechnological-derived cell repair device. This scenario for repair calls for repair devices engineered to atomic precision which will have a complete or nearly complete ability to characterize and order biological matter at the molecular, cellular, and tissue level.