DNA BASED COMPUTERS, what? SCIENTISTS WRITE CODE INTO LIVING ORGANISMS (posted by Lale)

My zine will be on this topic but till then...

"DNA computing is a form of computing which uses DNA, biochemistry and molecular biology, instead of the traditional silicon-based computer technologies. DNA computing, or, more generally, molecular computing, is a fast developing interdisciplinary area. R&D in this area concerns theory, experiments and applications of DNA computing."-Wikipedia. that was vague.

"Scientists have written a message into the DNA of a living organism, a breakthrough they believe could lead to a new era of organic computers capable of healing themselves if damaged. The researchers encoded Einstein's most famous equation and most prolific year into the genome of one the hardiest strains of bacteria in the world, Bacillus subtilis. The characters "E=MC^2 1905!" were then read from the bacterium at a later date by analysing its genetic sequence."- from the guardian, see rest of article HERE.

HERE is another simple and vague description of DNA based computing at howstuffworks.com

DNA computing is an extremely new field of science beginning in the early 90's (Adleman's experiments in 1994). The first DNA based computer could solve problems with up to only 9 variables for the answer, just in 2000 the biggest breakthrough was one which could solve problems with up to 20 variables.

In 2003 another breakthrough in DNA computing was made, read HERE.

More to come soon!