美国海军研究实验室(NRL)的生物物理学家戴维·斯腾格(David Stenger)对“精密的园艺”产生了强烈的爱好。但是,根本不要期望从他的菜园里,得到什么品质好的番茄。因为,他和同事们在其作为菜地的培养皿中,生长的却是细胞。他们把表面化学和根据微电子学修改的制作技术结合起来,设计出分子土壤,以便细胞有可靠的地方“着根”和生长。 David Stenger, a biophysicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has a strong interest in “precision gardening.” But do not expect to get good quality tomatoes from his garden. Because he and his colleagues grow cells in their Petri dish as a vegetable field. They combine surface chemistry with fabrication techniques tailored to microelectronics to create molecular soils that cells can “root” and grow in reliable places.