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I hadn't heard of Bushnell. Do we know what happened to Charles Lieber? I think I read he had cancer. In any case, he's sure keeping a low profile. There's a photo of him in first link below in case anyone's interested in tracking him down!

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2001/11/liquid-computing-html

https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/08/27/184095/cyborg-tissue-monitors-cells/

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My co-authors and I get into Bushnell a bit more in our four-part series on transhumanism.

I would be interested to know more about Lieber - his background, connections, etc. - given the nature of his research.

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John Lukach published a list of Lieber's patents a couple of years ago, He also did a 6-part series on the "Bio-API" on his blog. You may know him from MD4CE

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Many thanks. I found the list on a comment you made on David Nixon's Substack, which I have reproduced below. There are plenty of patents to do with nanosensors and nanowires:

USPTO (patent office) records.

Here’s a partial list of patents from Dr. Charles Lieber, starting with the USPTO patent number, then the title for each patent:

10,436,747 Nanopore sensing by local electrical potential measurement

10,435,817 Controlled growth of nanoscale wires

10,369,255 Scaffolds comprising nanoelectronic components for cells, tissues, and other applications

10,355,229 Methods and systems for scaffolds comprising nanoelectronic components

10,119,955 High-resolution molecular sensor

10,049,871 Anisotropic deposition in nanoscale wires

9,903,862 Nanosensors and related technologies

9,786,850 Methods and systems for scaffolds comprising nanoelectronic components

9,702,849 Nanopore sensing by local electrical potential measurement

9,638,717 Nanoscale sensors for intracellular and other applications

9,595,685 Nanoscale wires, nanoscale wire FET devices, and nanotube-electronic hybrid devices for sensing and other applications

9,541,522 Nanoscale field-effect transistors for biomolecular sensors and other applications

9,535,063 High-sensitivity nanoscale wire sensors

9,457,128 Scaffolds comprising nanoelectronic components for cells, tissues, and other applications

9,297,796 Bent nanowires and related probing of species

9,252,214 Apparatus, method and computer program product providing radial addressing of nanowires

9,102,521 Nanosensors and related technologies

9,029,836 Controlled synthesis of monolithically-integrated graphene structure

8,883,568 Method providing radial addressing of nanowires

8,698,481 High-resolution molecular sensor

8,586,131 Liquid films containing nanostructured materials

8,575,663 High-sensitivity nanoscale wire sensors

8,471,298 Nanoscopic wire-based devices and arrays

8,399,339 Nanosensors

8,232,584 Nanoscale sensors

8,178,907 Nanoscopic wire-based electrical crossbar memory-devices and arrays

8,154,002 Nanoscale wire-based data storage

8,153,470 Doped elongated semiconductors, growing such semiconductors, devices including such

semiconductors, and fabricating such devices

8,072,005 Apparatus, method and computer program product providing radial addressing of nanowires

8,058,640 Branched nanoscale wires

7,956,427 Nanosensors

7,918,935 Transition metal oxide nanowires

7,915,151 Doped elongated semiconductors, growing such semiconductors, devices including such semiconductors and fabricating such devices

7,911,009 Nanosensors

7,858,965 Nanowire heterostructures

7,772,543 System and method for processing nanowires with holographic optical tweezers

7,666,708 Doped elongated semiconductors, growing such semiconductors, devices including such semiconductors, and fabricating such devices

7,619,290 Nanosensors

7,595,260 Doped elongated semiconductors, growing such semiconductors, devices including such semiconductors, and fabricating such devices

7,500,213 Array-based architecture for molecular electronics

7,476,596 Doped elongated semiconductors, growing such semiconductors, devices including such semiconductors, and fabricating such devices

7,399,691 Methods of forming nanoscopic wire-based devices and arrays

7,385,267 Nanosensors

7,301,199 Nanoscale wires and related devices

7,274,208 Nanoscale wire-based sub-lithographic programmable logic arrays

7,256,466 Nanosensors

7,254,151 Nanoscale coherent optical components

7,211,464 Doped elongated semiconductors, growing such semiconductors, devices including such semiconductors and fabricating such devices

7,172,953 Methods of forming nanoscopic wire-based devices and arrays

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Great! I couldn't find it. I hope I acknowledged John in my comment. It's one thing to post a list of patents, another to actually read/understand them!

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