[verytrivial]

For these nano construction techniques there always seems to be a massive chasm between what they are demonstrating and a trivial practical application. Like "we demonstrated cutting someones hair by running a combine harvester over a field of dummy heads." Really? Oh. Keep me informed of progress, I guess?

[agumonkey]

the realm of nanobiology is a bit different from our world; I talked to a dude who makes DNA game of life based computers, couldn't resist asking him about turing completeness, he said that's all fine but at 500 base-pair thermodynamics conditions start to break the structures so "programs" can't be long enough for such questions anyway.