X-Message-Number: 483
From att!compuserve.com!73647.1215 Wed Oct  2 00:24:41 EDT 1991
Date: 01 Oct 91 01:40:07 EDT
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Re: cryonics: #471 - #472

Bacteriorhodopsin has been under investigation for various computer
uses for at least 10 years. It responds to light very quickly (though
offhand I don't remember the figure. I think its well in the nanosecond
range). One thing which has not been done, so far as I know, is to try
to understand its structure well enough to make other molecules, perhaps
not based on normal biological materials --- they could have added use.

				Thomas Donaldson

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