The name "Magnetospirillum Magneticum" (not a X-Men Magneto variant ;-) ) is a name of a the most famous searched bacteria since the past 3 days. If the bacteria would have had a healthy brain it would have be posing for page 3 clicks ;-) ha ha...
Jokes apart...this bacteria although lived a unknown life suddenly came into light when it was found by researchers of University of Leeds and University of Tokyo; that it has the power to create magnetic nano magnets that are of largely equal and specific shapes i.e. cuboids each time this bacteria digests iron nano magetic cuboids are the bye-products. The polarity also is measured to be pretty much similar with all the other cuboids and is one of the rarest phenomenon we can witness on Earth.
This bacteria does one amazing thing it uses proteins to digest iron particles in the lake, pond water and then produces Magnetite nano particles which it again uses to align itself to earth's polarity in order to find places where there is plenty of oxygen for its survival.
Scientists believe that if they can successfully produce the protein by which this bacteria does all this amazing feat, they can replicate the same process outside bacteria to create magnetic particles which can be used to make next generation memory storage. Nano wires to make circuitry for new age biological processors that can truly revolutionize the computing industry.
Currently all the memory storage devices, processors etc are made via deposition/etching/lithography kind of approaches which down the line have become cheaper but still the cost remains high enough as compared to the novel methods such kind of biological methods can introduce. One more area researchers should focus is not only reducing devices size but also increase the battery life which has remained stagnant since the past 2 years or so...Lets hope to see a major innovation in that area too sooner...
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