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Programming Cells, With CellOS
First time accepted submitter JoeMerchant writes "An international team of synthetic biologists, led by professor of computer science Natalio Krasnogor at the University of Nottingham, hopes to revolutionize synthetic biology with what they call CellOS, a 'bottom-up approach to cellular computing, in which computational chemical processes are encapsulated within liposomes.' The bold project is aptly named AUdACiOuS."
Jsut watch out for the bugs
That acronym is ATRoCiOuS.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
I took cellular automata in college, and they never mentioned this...
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You mean like the music player? I hope they have more innovation in their work than in their naming schemes.
And watch out for the firmware update that removes the public's ability to program the Cells.
This gives yet another new meaning to "virus".
How long until we have a CellOS back-end for GCC?
so if you program an Artificial Neural Network it will be a biological one then... hmmm
Norton's days are counted!
I guess that the 'language' would have to be declarative, like prolog, since there is no way to enforce sequential execution. On a really positive note, at least the platform won't be subject to potential fragmentation. Like Richard Feynman said: 'You can't fool mother nature'
...for not all-capping their titles. PROGRAMMING CELLS, WITH CELLOS is a very different headline.
1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
"We've cured Cancer."
Fragmentation? Please, we got nothing on mother nature when it comes to fragmentation. :P
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
This is the future. Not space, not private rocketry for the deluded rich. But medical technology. Biology. Low energy, low materials but very high information density. Information processing is the only thing that's been going through massive improvements over the last few decades. Better get ready to live longer!
a name of an already popular open source application: http://audacious-media-player.org/
This is almost as bad as the libtorrent and libTorrent fiasco.
Since a court ruled recently that DNA couldn't be patented, now it looks like they're going to make an end run and try to get it copyrighted instead, as part of a "program" to genetically manipulate cells (and their contents). Oh well done.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I will aim at making E.coli bacteria much more easily to program and hence harness for useful purposes
So, insert a switch into E.coli to activate "auto-brewery" mode, swallow a pill containing the key on Friday afternoon and you get Free Beer, internally produced.
When can I have my cancer killing viruses, junk removing microbes, and human 1.05 patch?
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
"finally! a use for my music minor and a chance to dust off the ole cello..."
Good people go to bed earlier.
I'd like to know who made these synthetic biologists and why? Is there a shortage of real ones?
"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
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"God does not play Minecraft with the world." - Albert Einstein
Klingon. Definitely.
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Will CellOS make it easier to install Linux on a dead badger?
www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~nxk/PAPERS/DPDPSys.pdf
It looks like a well-considered approach. Hacking living organisms and designing new ones is coming, and it will be a big deal.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
The success of the project to create a ‘re-programmable cell’ could revolutionise synthetic biology and would pave the way for scientists to create completely new and useful forms of life using a relatively hassle-free approach.
What could possibly go wrong?
That explains everything!
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