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DNA Computer Puts Microbes to Work Monday, June 02, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Computer Technology
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It's not your normal, electronic silicon-based machine, but scientists have made a computer from a small, circular piece of DNA, then inserted it into a living bacterial cell and unleashed the microbe to solve a mathematical sorting problem. "A computer is any system that can read some input and give some readable output," says Karmella Haynes, a biologist at Davidson College in North Carolina and co-author of a new study appearing in the Journal of Biological Engineering. (source: sciam.com)
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