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It's a nanoassembly technique...

...but it's kind of complicated to create phages in quantity (which is why we in the west haven't caught on to use them to treat disease), so it's hard to say how practical this itself could be at industrial scales.

Still, it could lead the way to a "bug-free" process that accomplishes the same thing.

posted by : A. Peon, 06 April 2009 Complain about this comment
Never caught a bug before?

These don't sound like they'll be rechargeable. Wouldn't that make them more expensive in the long run?

posted by : old news, 06 April 2009 Complain about this comment
bugs?

err.. Virus's aren't bugs, i think you are getting confused with bacteria.

I think the writer got confused when performing their in depth background research on wikipedia.

At least you managed to work the speller checker for a change!

posted by : d.p, 06 April 2009 Complain about this comment
Virus attack

This will happen!

posted by : chrispy, 06 April 2009 Complain about this comment

Boffins build buggy battery

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