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MIT Making Computer Parts from DNA

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the growing-more-storage dept.

Rei writes "Following in the footsteps of Lynn Conway's pioneering work on VLSI that allowed ordinary students to create their own processors, a group of MIT professors have almost completed doing the same thing using DNA, known as synthetic biology. While not all of the components of a basic computer are working yet, there is hope that some day ordinary students may be able to design living computers, producing everything from novel drugs to seeds that sprout into treehouses."

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  1. in other news... by seven+of+five · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Vatican condemns treehouses.

  2. Yahweh = overated sky god by Magickcat · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Humans playing God, creating life. Theology may well be shaken to its very foundations.

    What nonsence - humans save lives and create life every day of the week. I haven't seen any overinflated sky gods (aka Yahweh) doing much for humanity lately.

    Theology would really be shaken to it's foundations if there was any proof of God's existence in any way whatsoever.

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    Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.

  3. Somebody new has to play God... by coltrane679 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    cause he's been doing a really shitty job on his own lately.

    http://slate.msn.com/id/2112083/