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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.

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