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Are Nanobacteria Making Us Ill? Nanobacteria are said to be cell walled microorganisms with a diameter well below the generally accepted lower limit (about 200 nanometres) for bacteria. --Ilya 01:22, 13 May 2006 (EDT) Power Up With Magnetic Bacteria Using magnetic bacteria to produce electricity --Ilya 19:39, 12 May 2006 (EDT) A New Twist on DNA DNA origami? --Jennyn 10:52, 27 April 2006 (EDT) Giant Stuffed Microbes The cutest microorganisms ever! --Jennyn 13:34, 20 April 2006 (EDT) New pathogenic bacterium pinpointed Granulobacter bethesdensis, named after the disease (chronic granulomatous disease) and location (Bethesda, Maryland) in which it was found. Nature News, April 14, 2006 --Jennyn 10:25, 18 April 2006 (EDT) IBM Creates Ring Oscillator on a Single Nanotube Ilya 15:50, 29 March 2006 (EST) via Jasonk Spore by Maxis - link to google video The first synthetic biology game? --Ilya 16:47, 16 March 2006 (EST) This is going to be the best, most addicting game ever! --Jennyn 16:58, 16 March 2006 (EST) 'DNA' nebula found in Milky Way Cosmic nebulae usually look like blobs in space, but astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope reported on Wednesday they have found a nebula twisted like the double helix of DNA. --Ilya 16:29, 16 March 2006 (EST) Craig Venter's Synthetic Genomics plans to "program cells" to produce hydrogen