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Caltech-KNI and Leti-Minatec have joined their expertise to transition from the era of "nanocraft" to very-large-scale integration (VLSI) of nanosystems.

A Tool Driven Revolution for Systems Biology?
Nanobiotechnology is the convergence of state-of-the-art nanodevices engineering with the molecular and cellular machinery of living systems. Research in the life sciences now requires significant technological innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Some of the most important challenges come from systems biology—a new science that strives to understand, globally, the complex biochemical regulatory networks that underlie all of life. Current research is providing a first draft of the "wiring diagrams" for such networks. Emerging nanotechnology is poised to offer optimal tools for elucidating systems biology; it will enable high-throughput studies with resolution at the level of the individual cell—at its characteristic temporal and spatial scales. The future application space for this technology is vast—ranging from physiological monitoring and clinical diagnosis, to a spectrum of "-omics" central to R&D in the life sciences, medicine, and pharma.

Transitioning the recent advances from nanoscience into nanotechnology that is producible en masse remains a largely unmet challenge worldwide. Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) in Pasadena, CA USA and the CEA/LETI – Minatec in Grenoble, France have together forged the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI (very-large-scale-integration) to make real the oft-cited potential of nanoscale systems. Read more...