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Which is, after all, just melted silicon.
The cleverly named Silicon Valley start up @Home promises 30 million bits per second of bandwidth through cable-TV lines . Theoretically, @Home can deliver a
Once the details of silicon metabolism have been revealed, the stage should be set for nanotechnologists to harness diatom proteins for the manufacture of nanodevices.
The cover story says the worship of newness is the key to the Silicon Valley economy.
‘The only way we can really figure out what a gene is doing is by comparing it with known genes in other organisms, but because diatoms are so unique in their use of silicon, we don't have that option.