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Engineers Invent Programming Language To Build Synthetic DNA

Posted by samzenpus on from the coding-code dept.

vinces99 writes "Chemists soon could be able to use a structured set of instructions to 'program' how DNA molecules interact in a test tube or cell. A team led by the University of Washington has developed a programming language for chemistry that it hopes will streamline efforts to design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars, robots and other devices. In medicine, such networks could serve as smart drug deliverers or disease detectors at the cellular level."

2 of 51 comments (clear)

  1. Re:exception handling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do they intend to resolve this problem?

    Same way we always do - incoherent comments in the code.

  2. If it's a programming language... by TheloniousToady · · Score: 3, Funny

    Brooks' law doubtless applies. To maximize productivity, I recommend that the size of DNA programming teams be limited to two .