by Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
Genetic logic gates will enable biologists to program cells for chemical production and disease detection. By Katherine Bourzac on March 28, 2013 If biologists could put computational controls inside living cells, they could program them to sense and report on the presence of cancer, create drugs on site as they’re needed, or dynamically adjust their activities in fermentation tanks used to make drugs and other chemicals. Now researchers at Stanford University have developed a way to make genetic parts that can perform the logic calculations that might someday control such activities. The Stanford researchers’ genetic logic gate can be used to perform the full complement of digital logic tasks, and it can store information, too.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512901/how-to-make-a-computer-from-a-living-cell/
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