Biological computers might speed processing tasks
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your gear might one day run on brain cells.
Researchersrecently foundthat biological computers could save electricity over the silicon chips we use today.
In the paper announcing the discovery, scientists described using 50,000 brain cells grown from stem cells.
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It’s part of a growing movement to harness the power of evolution to make computer processing faster.
The idea of using brains as a computer isn’t entirely new.
Other scientists have demonstrated how tocontrol robots with brain organoids.
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The second method is where nerve cells are fitted onto computational circuits, individually or in small clusters.
Turek’s company recently achieved a DNA-based computation milestone by demonstrating fundamental parallel search capability using DNA chemistry.
CATALOG encoded about17,000 wordsfrom Shakespeare’s Hamlet into DNA in September.
Hartung said biological computing is more a “vision” than a practical reality.
Update 3/9/2023: Corrected the source’s name in paragraph 3.
