Open Innovation

DNA logic gates herald injectable computers June 2, 2010

Very interesting article on new logic gates which are formed from short strands of DNA and their complementary strands.  In conjunction with simple molecular machinery they mimic their electronic equivalent.

“The biocomputer would sense biomarkers and immediately react by releasing counter-agents for the disease,” says Itamar Willner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, who led the work.