Computing Inside a Living Cell

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 31, 2013 @02:07PM from the you're-going-to-need-a-smaller-chair dept.

First time accepted submitter Rozanne writes "The new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine has a story on Stanford professor Drew Endy's creation of microscopic computers out of biological components for use inside living cells. His work is a mash-up of molecular biology and computer engineering: Instead of a computer made of silicon, metal and plastic, it's a computer made of DNA, RNA and enzymes. Endy says biologists are typically confounded at first when he explains how the computers work and how they could be used."

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Re:My feeling by OhANameWhatName · 2013-10-31 14:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Based on not reading the article, is that probably there is not really an analogy with computing figured out in detail. Yet.
As a fellow uninformed member of the /. community, I'd like to second your notion and move for a vote.

All those in favor of calling Drew Endy nasty names, say "I"
Yes, yes, very nice... by tutufan · 2013-10-31 15:27 · Score: 3, Funny

but can it mine bitcoins?!