The discipline of using biological nanomachines to accomplish the goals of Nano Tech, rather than trying to engineer things from scratch.
This field is actually fairly credible, to the extent that Oxford University's biochemistry department has recently started teaching it to undergraduates as a fourth-year option: <http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/teaching/undergrad/synopsis/synopses/common/index.asp?paperid=39>.
Not such a bad idea: one put forward by Greg Bear in 'Blood Music'...
An excellent, beautiful and easily accessible book about life at the molecular level, from a mechanical point of view, is The Machinery Of Life.
Recently made the news thanks to the scientific conference in Denver:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2765077.stm
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