X-Message-Number: 17275 From: Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:59:43 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #17189 nano repair From Mark Plus: > > Badly folded proteins will reshape themselves as soon as the temperature > >returns to normal again. > > etc., > > Along these lines, has anyone read the article in the August 2001 issue of > _Scientific American_ titled "Cybernetic Cells"? The scientists > constructing advanced computer models of living cells intend to use them for > discovering new drugs and things like that, but they could conceivably be > used to model repair scenarios for recovering cryopreserved (and > cryo-damaged) cells. Sorry to be late, I was off line. I have seen the article indeed. The problem is with the computing power asked for a workable simulation. This is well in the range of quantum computers, that is, well beyond the capabilities of current supercomputers. That is not to say that nothing interesting can be done with present day computers, simply, we must be concious about the limits of our technology. yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17275