Scientist Finds Way To Control DNA-based Computations
A scientist at North Carolina State University (NCSU) has found a way to control a logic gate in a DNA-based computing system.
The discovery could lead to computing chips that integrate both DNA molecules as well as traditional chip architectures built with silicon to create higher performing semiconductors in the future.
According to Alex Deiters, associate professor of chemistry at NCSU, DNA computing has tremendous potential as DNA has the ability to store much more data than silicon-based chips, but DNA is difficult to control. In fact, DNA computation are rather random acts – even the when and the where cannot be controlled. For this reason, scientists have been struggling with the creation of DNA computation sequences.
Deiters said that he was able to control DNA by "photocaging" portions of the DNA strands. By exposing the DNA to UV light, the scientist said that he "successfully photocaged several different nucleotides on a DNA logic gate known as an AND gate." UV light caused a computational event to be initiated and completed. Deiters now hopes that photocaging will enable scientists to create more complex computational processes and enable interfaces between silicon and DNA-based computers.
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*takes out pistol* I'm going guys.
Some day a computer virus will be able to infect the user.
Step one into human hacking has been complete..
Some day a computer virus will be able to infect the user.
Yeah, hi doc....my computer has a virus. Can you burn some Nyquil to a a CD? It can't seem to hibernate, otherwise.
Where the f*** is John Connor? Gonna need him soon
The Global programmable immune system on its way!
DNA Computation has SKYNET written all over.
Now we know who started it all.
Screw John connor. We need Neo
godsdamn frakking cylons!
"Sir, I was just trying to say, they hacked your firewall in 10 seconds. Okay. Even a supercomputer with a brute force attack would take 20 years to do that...The signal pattern is learning. It's evolving on its own. And you need to move past Fourier transfers and start considering quantum mechanics...What about an organism? A living organism? Maybe some kind of DNA based computer? And I know that that sounds crazy... " Maggie Madsen - Transformers Movie
I just can't wait for DNA computing to be mainstream. I want to upgrade my vision with some mid-range NVIDIA gpu.
I can't wait to take a pill and Play Wow in my brain in full HD without a monitor
but can it play crisis
someone had to say it
Willingly growing cybernetic parts on ones body would be way coo!
I can't wait to take a pill and Play Wow in my brain in full HD without a monitor
That is the future, and with full sensory immersion too. Just don't look at WoW or Diablo for that. Look instead at the pr0n industry.
but can it play crisissomeone had to say it
whos to say a game of crysis isnt going on right now in your body?
ultimate computer combo DNA geranium quantum based super computer. maybe a reality in my life time could be very interesting, if 'IT' don't go off in the wrong direction with it... matrix... terminator....
Bruce Willis as FBI Agent Tom Greer will terminate all the Surrogates, so I'm not to worried.
This just gave me a great idea for a movie. Imagine Neo entering the Matrix to help John Connor go to the past and destroy Skynet before the machines take over the Matrix in the present with the help of Agent Smith. It's a mashup of The Matrix, Terminator, Inception and Dude Where's my Car. What? It's still better than any Uwe Boll movie.
DNA computing should be a natural for programming loops.
Going around and around and around...
ahaha this would be awesome, to play rpg games immersed no monitor or anything besides the brain
hope we can install see through programs ^_^
That would be great. I wonder when the new human OS will be released as the current one seems to be a bit stupid. At this rate we can also store the entire Pirate Bay on our brain too. Will the Feds confiscate our brain if they find content and software on our brain that is pirated
Random' suggests that nothing controls the DNA interactions, but that seems hardly to be the case. Instead, I'd think that DNA would have a 'mind' of its own, since it goes about the business of building tissues in a consistent and reproducible way. The question is how to perform operations (which would encompass the basic computations), how to encode information of our choice to ask a question, and how to understand the result.
Hmm. Maybe each of us is an answer.