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...
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