Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.
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- I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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