stateofhack
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Chemical reactions....on chip.
http://www.physorg.com/news173281486.html
So what do you all think of this? It sounds amazing but then again loosing the "hand on knowledge" from reactions would be a shame..plus how can we be
sure that the results they spit out are correct?
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Picric-A
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I doubt that will catch on... Like you say, they must perform all reactions prior to putting it on the chip and once that has been done you might as
well have done it in the lab
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psychokinetic
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I'm not paying $384718975698746591876249581726459187245872308975 for a degree in chemistry to use a digital laboratory.
-.-'
-On another note, it quashes the idea of amateur discoveries. How can you discover a new property of something if it only does 'what is expected'?
[Edited on 28-9-2009 by psychokinetic]
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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This is wicked stuff.
Somewhat scary and fascinating too.
What a fine day for chemistry this is.
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mr.crow
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I believe this is for combinational chemistry, where they try out every combination to discover which drug works the best. Thats why there are so many
weird permutations of different structures, like benzodiazapines
They already have robots that do combinational chemistry, but the chip uses a fraction of the enzymes they are testing. So real chemistry is still
safe 
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