Problem-Solving Bacteria Crack Sudoku 86
techbeat writes "A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve logic puzzles – with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan, reports New Scientist. The team began with 16 types of E. coli, each colony assigned a distinct genetic identity depending on which square it occupied within a four-by-four sudoku grid.The bacteria can also express one of four colors to represent the numerical value of their square. As with any sudoku puzzle, a small number of the grid squares are given a value from the beginning by encouraging the bacteria in these squares to differentiate and take on one of the four colors. The Tokyo team's sudoku-solving bacteria competed in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week."
Next Step (Score:1, Funny)
Now if we can just get the bacteria to watch "Sarah Palin's Alaska", we'll have another 3.4x10^35 registered Republican voters.
Call me when... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why E.coli? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's so special? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wrong link in TFS? (Score:4, Funny)
When I clicked on the first link, I got a preview "article" titled "Sign in to read: brain asymmetry eases hypnotic trance". What relation does this have to the summary?
Once you're in an asymmetric hypnotic trance /. seems much easier to understand.
Bacteria, I dub thee.... (Score:1, Funny)
"Sudokoli"