On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:38 PM, John Griessen <john@industromatic.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/2012 12:41 PM, Simon Quellen Field wrote:
>>
>> Suppose we made a strongly polar molecule that was fairly large in
>> comparison
>> to other strongly polarized molecules in the body (a small peptide is
>> large in
>> comparison to water, for example). We build it so that it changes its
>> length in
>> response to something we want to measure (some gene expression or siRNA,
>> or
>> maybe just oxygen levels). Now it will resonate at a different radio
>> frequency
>> when the levels of that target change.
>>
>> We already do this with light. An acid-base indicator is a large molecule
>> that
>> resonates at a particular frequency (say that of blue light) in a basic
>> solution,
>> but resonates at a different frequency (red light) in an acid. Making the
>> molecule
>> larger shifts the frequency lower
>
>
>
> Good thinking Simon. Like it. Would be nice to open hardware something
> like that
> because it is the classic instrument that makes something invisible become
> visible.
>
> And it seems novel to me...
We may have touched on this before, but this seems very close to
bio-telecommunication...
>
>
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