Scientists build tiny computer from DNA


Scientists build tiny computer from DNA -- Patricia Reaney  -- Reuters  -- November 22, 2001
Metacomputing

Israeli scientists have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them could fit in a test tube and perform a billion operations per second with 99.8 percent accuracy.
Instead of using figures and formulas to solve a problem, the microscopic computer's input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules -- which store and process encoded information in living organisms.

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