Concept
Molecular assembler
Overview
A molecular assembler, as defined by K. Eric Drexler, is a "proposed device able to guide chemical reactions by positioning reactive molecules with atomic precision". A molecular assembler is a molecular machine. Some biological molecules such as ribosomes fit this definition as biological machines. This is because they receive instructions from messenger RNA and then assemble specific sequences of amino acids to construct protein molecules.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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- Nobel Prize
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- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Royal Society
- Carbon
- K. Eric Drexler
Place in the tradition
Part of Transhumanism.