And here is the lowest layer of an entirely new technology stack, waiting for its compilers and its high-level languages.

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Tiny molecular machines. Their work marked the advent of nanobiotechnology.

James M. Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston, said the Nobel would bestow legitimacy on the field and help convince people that nanomachines are not just fantastical science fiction of the far future.

“No one is making money on these right now, but it will come,” he said. “These men have established and built up the field in a remarkable way.”

Dr. Tour predicted that the first profitable use of the technology might be machines that open up cell membranes in the body to deliver drugs. “It’s really going to be quite extraordinary,” he said.

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