From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 22:44:23 MDT
OFFLIST...
Re:
> I guess I'm not making myself clear. I am not talking about promoting these
> technologies, lobbying for these technologies, or educating the public about
> these technologies.
But Harvey, some of these things may be quite significant.
I believe Brett has significantly influenced Stem Cell
legislation down under -- that in turn influences research
funding down under. These things are connected(!).
> What I want to know is how many of us are actually working on these
> technologies or developing these technologies. We seem to have too many
> people in "sales" and too few in "production".
I've spent most of the last 3 years trying to get concepts for
whole genome engineering into serious development -- I haven't
been very successful due to the current funding climate but am
aware of 2 other companies that are making some slow progress.
So there *is* progress being made on the enabling technologies.
And though Zyvex is having some development speed bumps
(private info) they actually do have a product out now --
the S100 Nanomanipulator (though I would probably call it
a micromanipulator) [but it does probably scale down
fairly easily].
I had a recent private communication from Ken Clements
that he has been granted a patent on "microactuators".
So slowly, step by step there is progress. I think you may see
a lot start to happen due to the last 5-8 years of genome and
protein structure decoding over the next 3-5 years [i.e. 2003-2008].
There are people in the trenches its just not always obvious.
Best,
Robert
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