A really good nanotech blog from the guy who does this stuff for forbes. Just click it.

Forbes Wolfe

] Scientists are wrestling with individual atoms to develop
] molecule-sized computers, tiny cancer-fighting robots
] that travel the bloodstream ... and stain-resistant
] trousers.

Wired News: Get Ready for New 'Nano' Products

] The networks were etched on to 15 centimetre-wide silicon
] wafers and the paths were then used as a mould to set a
] layer of biodegradable polymer. Two of these were then
] sealed together with a microporous membrane sandwiched
] between them, producing a mini artificial vascular
] system.
]
] Endothelial cells - which are flat cells lining the walls
] of blood vessels in a single layer - were injected into
] the network on one side of the membrane and either liver
] or kidney cells were injected on the other side. The
] endothelial cells coated the inside of the polymer
] nanotubes. These nanotubes biodegraded to leave a living
] shell of vessels similar to a natural vascular network.
] This method would provide an efficient means of supplying
] the liver or kidney cells with enough oxygen and
] nutrients to survive.

New Scientist - Nanotechnology may create new organs

Nanotechnology ... is an exciting and relatively unexplored scientific and technological frontier offering many new insights and applications but at the same time giving rise to much speculation and hyperbole. From an applications perspective, microtechnologies and nanotechnologies offer a particularly powerful combination [and] deserve careful consideration.

Read the full text of this National Academies Press book online.

Implications of Emerging Micro and Nanotechnology

"Ordinary alfalfa plants are being used as miniature gold factories that one day could provide the nanotechnology industry with a continuous harvest of gold nanoparticles. "

This is rad!

Scientists use alfalfa plants to harvest nanoparticles of gold: 8/02

""I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals."
Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, April 2000"

Disarmament Diplomacy

"In the year 2000, when they look back at this age, they will wonder why it was not until the year 1960 that anybody began seriously to move in this direction."

Richard Feynman's talk on what we call nanotechnology. Most of you have probably already seen this, but its just a good read:)

Feynman's Talk

Nanofactories will churn out everything from rocking chairs to rocket ships, superior to any ever made, at "the cost of potatoes and wood," in Dr. Merkle's words. Nanocomputers will interface directly with the brain, vastly increasing human intelligence. And nanobots will cruise through bloodstreams, banishing disease and debility.

They've Seen the Future and Intend to Live It

The prospect of a strand that is long, strong and thin conjures dreams of epic engineering like spinning a 22,300-mile-long cable out of nanotubes to tether a satellite in orbit around the earth, and then building an elevator that goes from the ground floor literally into outer space.

Make way for the space elevator!

It Slices! It Dices! Nanotube Struts Its Stuff

This article summarizes some of the advances made in nanotech

you may have to register with the web site to see the article, but it is free and worth the time because this is a good life science mag.

The Scientist - Nanotech Dreams