DNA computing breakthrough: bio-compatible computers in sight. DNA crystal engineering makes logic gates possible, which could lead to DNA-based computers and biosensors.
DNA computing breakthrough: bio-compatible computers in sight. DNA crystal engineering makes logic gates possible, which could lead to DNA-based computers and biosensors.
DNA crystal engineering makes logic gates possible, which could lead to DNA-based computers and biosensors.
Findings were published here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.202302345
... am I getting old or is the world getting noticeably more sci fi? Or both?
You're definitely not getting young.
Well...not yet. They are still working on perfecting that one.
Not yet, anyways
In the bio-tech space specifically, most of these recent advancements (e.g. protein folding) are a direct result of advancements in Deep Neural Networks. This is because things that are impossible to model explicitly without a working understanding of the system are easily understood by a neural network. The reasons for this are precisely the same reasons why we ourselves are so good at the task. For a real world example of humans being applied to a similar task, look up the Japanese educational industry around chick sexing.
Technological progress is a helluva drug.
Can't wait for Biocurrencies!
You mean ATP, Glucose, and co?
Don't forget to buy and COSNUME all the food!
(For the uninitiated: COSNUME should be a pun for HODL which originates from HOLD (the crypto) and "Hold On to Dear Life")
For those wondering how DNA computers work, here is a rundown from arstechica that focuses on the traveling salesman problem. It's a very different way of computing than what we're accustomed to and it works well with a very specific sort of computational problem, the kind that involves processing many possible permutations.
I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings. After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell. My first and only true friend was a small rat. One day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle and died. I have a horrible feeling it's still there...
Just make an AI robot made of DNA already, systhetic humans.
Why all I can think of now, is Terminator T-1000.
Sounds like catching a computer virus is fixing to take on a whole new meaning.
Fucking robobrains on the way