Weizmann Institute Amazes World Again

[Eric Cordian]

Tim wrote:

> Sounds like the same DNA computing that Adleman was doing several years
> ago.

As I recall, Adleman's DNA actually chugged away in a test tube computing
Hamiltonian Paths.

I look forward to news of Shapiro's DNA doing something similarly useful.

> A good thing the Department of Hype was brought in to co-author the 
> scientific press releases.

My favorite Weizmann Institute press release was the one about their
amazing discovery that electrons in a double slit experiment do not
produce an interference pattern when you observe which slit they go
through. (E. Buks et al., Nature, 26 Feb. 1998.)

Vulis lampooned this in a very funny spoof, in which the "Weizmann
Institute" announced the "amazing result" of a similar experiment with
photons.

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