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FRESH VIEW. “Every one of us is a biomolecular computer, that is, a machine in which all components are molecules ‘talking’ to one another in a logical manner. The hardware and software are complex biological molecules that activate one another to carry out some predetermined chemical tasks. The input is a molecule that undergoes specific, programmed changes, following a specific set of rules (software) and the output of this chemical computation process is another well-defined molecule."" " http://lnkd.in/bm9pBC3 View in LinkedIn

MOVING GOALPOSTS. competition between wires and proteins. "NSA Utah Data Center Will Have 5 Zettabytes Of Memory, Equal To 312 Billion iPhones". " " http://lnkd.in/bVW87Bs View in LinkedIn

BIONUMERATE. "Israeli scientists have built a biological computer using only biomolecules like enzymes and DNA (and) have created a molecular transducer – an advanced computing machine – built entirely of biomolecules that can manipulate genetic codes. Their transducer can perform a long division of binary numbers by three and performed an iterative computation."" " http://lnkd.in/bm9pBC3 View in LinkedIn

DNA DATA STORAGE. "A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard's Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabytes of data (around 700 terabytes) in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times."" " http://lnkd.in/bVW87Bs View in LinkedIn

SALMON TESTES DNA as storage devices. Seriously. "Researchers... recently used salmon DNA to build a write-once-read-many (WORM) data storage device. Data is written to the device with a laser and read electronically, and you can enjoy the thought that your data’s sitting on a piece of sushi."" " http://lnkd.in/bcR7QDW View in LinkedIn

BIOSTORAGE. "The University of Leeds is trying to use bacteria to build hard drives, and there’s even potential to use salmon testes in storage devices. But Gale says that this type of research helps us do more than just create new types of computers. It also helps us understand life itself."" " http://lnkd.in/bapF6Rd. View in LinkedIn

SMART SLIME. "We’ve long known the slime mold can determine the shortest path through a maze, or even model optimal railway systems. Now, a group of researchers has shown these amoeba-like single-cell organisms could be used to build general-purpose computers."" " http://lnkd.in/bapF6Rd View in LinkedIn

ANIMATED COMPUTING. "The future of computing might just come from... slime molds! Turns out these uber smart, super weird molds can do things that even our most advanced computers can't handle."" " http://lnkd.in/bMS-5dC View in LinkedIn

ANIMATED COMPUTING. "The future of computing might just come from... slime molds! Turns out these uber smart, super weird molds can do things that even our most advanced computers can't handle."" " http://lnkd.in/bMS-5dC View in LinkedIn

ENZYME driven computer. "An electronic ‘AND’ gate, for example, gives a positive output only when voltage is applied to both of its inputs. In the genetic version, the output gene is transcribed only when both terminator sequences between it and the promoter sequence are neutralized by two inputs in the form of recombinase enzymes."" " http://lnkd.in/bJmtWq8 View in LinkedIn