An Israeli Biocomputer Can Now Detect Multiple Signs of Disease from Inside the Body
A Biomolecular Computer at Work At least, this is how it was explained to us. Gil, et al. ©2011 American Chemical Society Wouldn't it be easier to deal with disease if our bodies just fixed themselves? That's asking quite a bit from our physiologies, but Israeli researchers are working on tiny nano-computers that could do the job for us. They envision tiny machines made of biomolecules that autonomously troll the body looking for disease, computing a diagnosis and delivering drugs all at the same time. It's a long way off, but they're making progress--they've just developed a biomolecular computer that can autonomously identify multiple molecules at the same time. From a biomolecular computing standpoint (as well as from a diagnostics standpoint), that's pretty huge. The researchers have previously demonstrated a biomolecular computer that could sense disease indicators one at a time. Existing in a two state system, it essentially was programmed in...