Stanford Living Computer

This piece makes the race for a real “Tricorder” seem positively old fashioned.  Synthetic biologists at Stanford and UC-Berkeley are working on “living computers,” based on “genetic transistors” that can exist inside human cells.  This report from the San Jose Mercury News isn’t sufficient to understand how this works, but an article in the March 29^th issue of Science gives the details of this mind-boggling concept. MORE

Image Credit:  The Chronicle of Higher Education and Stanford University