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Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by ben_w on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:19AM (#26808328)
Antibiotics, and bacteriophage viruses, kinda are nanotechnology (albeit in the same limited sense that steel dates back a thousand years).

You might like bacteriophages — viruses which eat bacteria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

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Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by FredPret on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:44AM (#26808670)
Kurzgesagt has a cool video on phages. But I meant the grey goo kind of nanobot
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Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by ben_w on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:11PM (#26810846)
We are the goo ;) (I want to finish that “goo gatchoo”, musical puns aside, we are what grey goo is capable of and what it ends up looking like).
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Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by FredPret on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:09PM (#26811650)
Interesting idea, never considered that angle. Perhaps I should clarify that like my goo to obey commands written in ACGT, and not some future kind using C
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