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Scientists build DNA based computer

Posted by chrisd on from the computer?-you're-soaking-in-it dept.

Archangel Michael writes "Israeli scientists have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them could fit in a test tube and perform a billion operations per second with 99.8 percent accuracy. Yahoo News has the story"

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  1. Re:Nice start, but... by geekoid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    what if it ran the same calculation, multiple times, then used the resulting "average"?
    it seemes to me you could get at leat 5 nines out of that.
    so we'll have organic computers, man my frame rate sucks, someone poor some more beer in the CPU holding tank!

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  2. Synthetic mitochondria w/checksum by dankjones · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I was just thinking last night it would be great if we could invent synthetic mitochondria that could read our DNA and perform checksum algorithms.


    And then alert a repair mechanism when errors are found. It would probably need to survey other cells to compare results.