Some creative biologists from the Synthetic Biology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have begun to apply the concepts of electrical engineering to living cells, literally programming them for data storage and computation.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/52/15771.full
What do you think would it be possible to use DNA for such tasks?
Another interesting piece (just a rambling by a computer programmer, still very interesting) comparing how DNA works to computer science: http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/52/15771.full
What do you think would it be possible to use DNA for such tasks?
Another interesting piece (just a rambling by a computer programmer, still very interesting) comparing how DNA works to computer science: http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/
