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Published online 14 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011115-7
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Recognition molecule directed interfacing between semiconductor quantum dots and nerve cells
Nerve cells soldered to semiconductors cross computing with neuroscience.
Scientists in the United States are soldering nerve cells to semiconductors. Christine Schmidt and colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin use a sliver of protein to connect neurons and tiny crystals of semiconductors called quantum dots1.
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