Biological computing

Test tubes with DNA that encodes the information. Credit: Rami Shloush, Technion Spokesperson

Researchers at the Technion have developed technology for encoding, recovering, and rapidly reading information stored in DNA.

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The information density in DNA is about a hundred million times greater than that of digital storage. This means that, potentially, for every unit of volume that currently holds 1 megabyte, we could store up to 100
DNA based computer. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Prestigious grant for Technion researchers: Towards a complete system for storing DNA information

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The field of DNA-based computing is considered one of the most promising directions in the world of information today, since a single gram of DNA may store enormous information within it, it will be possible to save a lot of energy and store much more volume
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Technology companies produce computer chips with human cells - is this ethical?

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While silicon computers have changed the face of society, they are still dwarfed by the brains of most animals. For example, a cat's brain stores and can use 1,000 times more data than an average iPad
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NIS 2 billion will be invested in Bio-Convergence projects in Israel

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The program will focus on building infrastructure and developing capabilities in areas such as bioengineering devices, bioprinting, tissue engineering, environmental microbiome, synthetic biology and more...
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Researchers have developed an algorithm that reads our DNA as human language

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Scientists from Ben-Gurion University have developed an algorithm that locates sequences in DNA, with the help of which the hereditary material can be replicated in the cell. This multidisciplinary method will enable the design of personalized innovative drugs in the future
Schematic description of the system: light and the substance rapamycin are used as the input signals; The signals travel through a network of amino acids in the protein. The output is actually the activation of the FAK protein.

A nanocomputer that controls the activity of a protein

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The development of nanocomputers that will be used in precision health applications has been the dream of many scientists. Now, for the first time ever, Penn University researchers have succeeded in developing a type of nanocomputer capable of controlling the activity of a protein
Dr. Ramez Daniel (left) and Dr. Li Shiming. Photo: Rami Shloush, Technion Spokesperson

What is the relationship between bacteria and neural networks?

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Technion researchers have developed a synthetic biological system for pattern recognition based on bacterial communities according to the design rules of artificial neural networks
DNA DNA. Illustration: Image by LaCasadeGoethe from Pixabay

International research: where exactly does the electric current pass in the DNA molecule?

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A study published in Nature Nanotechnology led by Prof. Dani Porat of the Hebrew University demonstrated for the first time the conduction of a significant electric current over a long distance in DNA molecules. The discovery is currently used as a basis for the development of a detector that can detect
Protein nanowires (greenish) derived from the bacterium Geobacter (background) are between electrodes (gold) creating a bioelectronic detector used to detect biomolecules (red). [Courtesy: UMass Amherst/Yao lab]

"From bacterial proteins to ammonia detectors"

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Biological computing. Illustration: shutterstock

Israeli researchers report progress in storing information in DNA: all of YouTube in one spoonful

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Scientists present a film encoded in DNA. From the study. Photo courtesy of the National Institute of Health/National Institute of Mental Health

Scientists show a film encoded in DNA

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Image: pixabay.com.

Computing with DNA strands

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All the movies, photos, emails and other digital data stored on more than 600 smartphones can be stored in the pink drop of DNA at the end of the test tube. [Courtesy: Tara Brown Photography/ University of Washington]

Storage of digital images within DNA and their perfect restoration

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A microscope image showing the two new strains of bacteria that were forced to cooperate together to obtain a multicellular result. [Courtesy: Bennett's Lab]

Development of an integrated circuit from bacteria

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Two system configurations for routing a drop of liquid created by a computer for diagnostic tests of a 'laboratory on a chip' whose efficiency is much higher than the manual diagnostic methods commonly used in laboratories today. The software was developed by researchers Shiyan Hu and Chen Liao from the University of Michigan. [Courtesy: Shiyan Hu and Chen Liao]

A biochip that functions as an analytical laboratory

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An example of chemical programming - the letters A, B and C represent different chemical substances. [Courtesy of Yan Liang, L2XY2.com]

A programming language for building synthetic DNA

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The stated goal of the project is to put an end to the phenomenon of forging identity cards and passports, but the risk is that the information will leak out and harm citizens' privacy. Illustration: shutterstock

What is the biometric database project?

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Prof. Ehud Kinan, Technion

Technion researchers have developed an advanced biological computer

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Prof. Ehud Shapira. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Logic gates, biological computers

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Prof. Ehud Kinan, Technion

Technion researchers have developed a biological computer capable of encoding and decoding visual information

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Dr. Chang-gyut Hwang, "the CTO of South Korea". Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"The CTO of South Korea" presented the vision of "Smartopia - the digital state" at Svit

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The Jacquard loom on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester was one of the first devices that could be programmed.

The next twenty years of microchips

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A revolution in information technology inspired by DNA

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Prof. Esther Segal, from the Technion magazine

Technion researchers have developed a method that enables the immediate identification of bacterial contamination in water

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Technion researchers have developed molecular information coding systems

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A new catalyst for DNA cleavage

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Sorting drugs into robots with the brain of a mouse

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IBM scientists have developed DNA component technology to build tiny chips for computers

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A microchip that performs a thousand chemical reactions simultaneously

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A programmable biological computer is being developed at the Weizmann Institute

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Make a correction

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A new way to store information using DNA has been developed

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A cipher was born

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Two researchers from Tel Aviv University succeeded in embedding a number of "memories" in a plate-sized neural network

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DNA and the natural algorithm

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The genetic chips are coming

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Artificial cells manage to move

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The wrong key

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The Technion researchers succeeded in developing a biological computer that knows how to color bacteria

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Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a molecular locking system

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DNA computers detect signs of life

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A biological computer may help fight bird flu

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The input is the fuel

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Compugen and Novartis will collaborate on research in the field of systems biology

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Paper-thin screens: first interview with a researcher from the Technion partner in the development

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A scientist from the Weizmann Institute and a scientist from the Technion were selected for the list of "XNUMX leading young scientists in the world"

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Scientists from Weizmann developed a biological computer that detects conditions typical of cancer and produces a drug

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Artificial information is stored in the DNA of a bacterium

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Compugen enters the DNA chip manufacturing market; Celera offered the Israeli government to buy the use of

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DNA as a substitute for semiconductors?

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