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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
Subject: STM nuclear reactions
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Date: 2 Nov 90 01:18:17 GMT
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The discussion about STM makes me wonder whether anyone is planning on watching
individual atoms decay?  Imagine putting down some radioactively labeled DNA
and observing the 32P go boom!  Broken DNA!  Does it leave a pit in the
surface?  :-)

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov