NANOSYS, INC. N A NOTECHNOLOGY NANOSTRUCTURES: CULTIVATING NANOWIRES TO HELP FORM NEW CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SENSORS lexandria client tenant Nanosys, Inc., is developing systems based on nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, considered  by many to be the most revolutionary scientific break- through in recent years, involves manipulation of materi- als on a “nano” scale, 75,000 times finer than the width of a human hair. At this microscopic size, materials ex- hibit fundamentally new properties and behaviors. Scientists  at Nanosys carefully design and control various characteris- tics of these nanostructures to create novel materials with the potential to be applied to a wide range of industries. Nanosys is currently in the process of developing “nanowire-enabled” biological and chemical sensors in a highly-multiplexed format. This technology is potentially capable of various applications from high throughput genetic analysis to clinical diagnostics. A