Biology Computer Is Of Great Future

Published:2010/12/29 2:58:00 Author:Michelle From:SeekIC

The element silicon is so closely identified with computers that most people would be likely to associate it more readily with California’s high-tech valley than with the periodic table. But such thinking may soon have to be radically revised, as high-speed computation moves beyond chips and machines to include the tools of biochemistry and genetics: test tubes, slides, solutions, even DNA. Although the chemistry set won’t be replacing your PC anytime soon, two groups of scientists demonstrated last month how these information-laden molecules might perform calculations in future computers.

In the near future, such real-world problems might involve the encryption of large amounts of military information, or they might inv0lve some combination of silicon and DNA computing. Related chip is:HT7044A .

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