Analogous to a computer-driven machine shop. Nanomachines will work with atoms, not nuclei. The use of computers to perform engineering design, ultimately generating detailed designs from broad specifications with little or no human help. Automated engineering is a specialized form of artificial intelligence. One-celled living organisms, typically about one micron in diameter.
Bacteria are among the oldest, simplest, and smallest types of cells.
The prejudice that biological systems have an intrinsic superiority that will always give them a monopoly on self-reproduction and intelligence. A condition in which an organism's cell and tissue structures are preserved, allowing later restoration by cell repair machines. Microscopic blood vessels that carry oxygenated blond to tissues. A membrane-bound unit, typically microns in diameter. In general, each cell of a multicellular organism contains a nucleus holding all of the genetic information of the organism.