Bacteria Used to Create Nanowires

FnH writes "Derek Lovley and his colleagues of the University of Massachusetts discovered that the Geobacter bacteria is capable of producing nanowires. The bacteria is normally used to clean up toxic waste. Geobacter does not use oxygen, but metal as its source for power. This probably explains the 3nm to 5nm nanowires it excretes while working. What metal the nanowires are made of is not yet known, but the genetic code responsible for their creation is. This opens up the possibility of modifying the bacteria to create nanowires on chips."

For once

[malkavian]

people would be quite correct in saying that the wiring inside their device was crap!

Oh, crap

[KiloByte]

This probably explains the 3nm to 5nm nanowires it excretes while working.
So... the next generation of electronics is going to be made of shit?

Re:Possible cyberjack material?

[SlashEdsDoYourJobs]

Hey, if the editors can dupe, why not you? [slashdot.org]

Re:Oh, crap

[imag0]

So... the next generation of electronics is going to be made of shit?

Stands to reason it will be. Heaven knows the previous couple of generations have been ;)

Re:Oxigen

[Anonymous Coward]

It's probably one of those British spellings. Like 'spelt', 'whilst', 'kerb', and a bunch of other meaningless words.

I always said Intel chips

[madman101]

were crap...

Bacteria making wires?!

[Dubpal]

Don't these scientists read the news!? Wires are sooo twentieth century.
Wake me up when they finally find bacteria that use Bluetooth.

Argh the bugs!

[RenHoek]

After all the time I spend in trying to get the damn bugs OUT of my computer, now the manufacturer it factoring them right in at the start of building my computer :(

Nice

[airjrdn]

Great, now they're building the bugs into the chips on purpose? What next?

Re:Nice

[Griim]

It's not a bug it's a featu -- oh nevermind!

This is already Patented...

[vettemph]

>
>nanowires it excretes while working.

and Microsoft will vigorously defend its patented ability to turn your PC into excrement.

I was fired from this project...

[vudufixit]

For bringing penicillin to work! I had strep! WHERE IS THE JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD???

Logistically speaking...

[kent, knower of all]

How do you get all of the bacteria to crap in a straight line?

I mean, all it takes is one of the little buggers to go off in a random direction and it'll short the whole damned circuit.

Unless, of course, we can engineer another strain of bacteria that eat the metal wire and excrete insulated wire. :)

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