DNA Computer Puts Microbes to Work as Number Crunchers [News]

Friday, May 30, 2008 - 17:42 in Mathematics & Economics

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. [More]

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