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This story is from the category Augmenting Organics
Date posted: 24/03/2005 Technion scientists have developed a biological computer, composed entirely of DNA molecules and enzymes constructed on a gold-coated chip. The new computer can accept as many as 1 billion programs. This is a dramatic advance in potential complexity of problems that may be solved using a biological computer. ?An equally significant breakthrough is the incorporation of chips as an integral part of the computer?, explains Prof. Ehud Keinan, Dean of the Technion?s Faculty of Chemistry, who carried out this research. ?The chip allows for automatic, real-time readout of the computation results, with no need to employ elaborate techniques of molecular biology, such as gel electrophoresis and the use of radioactively labeled materials. Computation on a chip allows efficient parallel computation with many, geographically labeled input molecules. Such computers could have a variety of practical applications, including encryption of information. For example, it would be possible to encrypt images on a chip, whereby deciphering the images would be possible only by a person with access to a secret key comprised of several short DNA molecules and several enzymes.? See the full Story via external site: pard.technion.ac.il Most recent stories in this category (Augmenting Organics): 11/06/2013: The Body Electric: Researchers Move Closer to Low-Cost, Implantable Electronics |
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