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Programming Cells, With CellOS

Posted by timothy on from the undeclared-membrane-operations-are-fatal dept.

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."

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  1. Jsut watch out by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jsut watch out for the bugs

  2. ACRONYM by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Funny

    That acronym is ATRoCiOuS.

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    1. Re:ACRONYM by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 4, Funny

      1. I believe technically CellOS is a portmanteau, not an acronym.
      2. A Pennsylvania Information System would be PennIS.

    2. Re:ACRONYM by jd · · Score: 2

      It's a compound word if the two words used are element words, otherwise it's a molecule word.

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  3. PS3 by tepples · · Score: 2

    And watch out for the firmware update that removes the public's ability to program the Cells.

  4. Re:virii by zAPPzAPP · · Score: 2

    Actually it's the old meaning. We have come full circle.

  5. FreeCell? by Marc+Madness · · Score: 2

    How long until we have a CellOS back-end for GCC?

  6. I'd like to thank Slashdot... by dreemernj · · Score: 2

    ...for not all-capping their titles. PROGRAMMING CELLS, WITH CELLOS is a very different headline.

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  7. Re:From the article... by JoeMerchant · · Score: 2

    Presumably the E.coli would be programmed to shut off alcohol production when a relatively low concentration is reached - errors in this threshold could range from amusing to fatal. And, I don't really like beer that much, I'd probably drink grape juice instead of eating grains... About the gas, that sounds like a problem for another bug, the same one we need to scrub gaseous CO2 from exhaust pipes.

  8. link to free version of journal article by tobiah · · Score: 2

    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.

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