Advanced Biological Computer Developed

First time accepted submitter ben saad issam writes in with news about a new biological transducer built by Israeli scientist. "Using only biomolecules (such as DNA and enzymes), scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations. The breakthrough might someday create new possibilities in biotechnology, including individual gene therapy and cloning."

You know what's coming

[ArcadeMan]

Limited [wikipedia.org] lifespan [wikipedia.org] beings.

Re:You know what's coming... again

[sanman2]

I've... read things you people wouldn't believe...

Like ships on fire near the Tannhauser Gate, maybe?

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[Walczyk]

I was thinking of C-beams.

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[someone1234]

What about unlimited lifespan beings?

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[sanman2]

Only if I can be one of them

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[davester666]

This is just a bullshit article about how somebody is really proud of their new baby.

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[plopez]

I was going to say a Golem...

Yeah, but I beyt tis will be more like this

[Optali]

[Youtube.com] [youtube.com]
<insert Kletsmer sountrack here>

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[interkin3tic]

Why is it that every time foreign people do something amazing, someone has to question them about the actions of their governments?

Because that's the only thing they can contribute. They don't understand the science, but they do understand geography.

In this case, I'd say it's more a fault of the articles than the reader: I'm a molecular biologist, and I can't figure out from the summary or the blurby article what's going on.

“Our results show a novel, synthetic designed computing machine that computes iteratively and produces biologically relevant results,” says lead researcher Prof. Ehud Keinan of the Technion Schulich Faculty of Chemistry. “In addition to enhanced computation power, this DNA-based transducer offers multiple benefits, including the ability to read and transform genetic information, miniaturization to the molecular scale, and the aptitude to produce computational results that interact directly with living organisms.”

Honestly, aside from "DNA-based" and "read and transform genetic information," that sounds exactly like the computer I'm currently typing on. There are no concrete examples of how this could be useful in any ar

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[Darth Snowshoe]

I heard the first automobile was kind of slow.

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[GenieGenieGenie]

The irony is that the OP's name is definitely Arabic, as are about 10% of undergrads in Israeli universities.

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[DNS-and-BIND]

Assuming that you're american, how would you react if you published a scientific paper after making a great breakthrough, and people started asking why you killed all those people in Afghanistan and Iraq, and why you tortured them without due process at Guantanamo Bay?

What world do you live in? This happens all the time.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, I disagree. If this was from Syria there could perhaps be a discussion about how their academia is able to innovate despite the civil war going on. The actual war, who's killing who, who's right and who's wrong, would still be off-topic.

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[VortexCortex]

It's not "very telling". Quite simply: There are a lot of moronic mods out there. Come to grips with the fact that you can't please all the people all the time, and embrace your inner troll. I have. My karma has soared. The mods, They do nothing!

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[lxs]

Some of the more interesting threads on Slashdot are the ones that don't stick to the narrow subject the submitter is promoting.

And yet the worst threads are the ones like these that devolve in a political shitfest. Which is any post that barely touches:
Israel, China, the US government, the EU, guns, money, climate, religion, evolution, women, RMS and a handful of other topics that I can't be bothered to dig up from memory. Grow up please.

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[Anonymous Coward]

This is an excellent observation. Repeated observations of innovation, country by country, gives us a truer feeling for the freedoms present in each country. Also, the purer the ongoing scientific advances made in a country, the more freedom is indicated in that country. In a fascist-lead country there can be progress toward a technical goal that helps the regime. Even so, under such pressure, scientists will guard and hold back their great discoveries because they know it is their perceived value that

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[Hognoxious]

who's killing whom

ISR,TFYFM!

Actually to late there is the 'Babbage Cabbage'

[axonis]

The datacentre you can eat, runs on solar, more power friendly and quite tasty, a data centre you can grow, actually already placed an order for 200, million in China
I qubet your proteins are folding now

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[axonis]

sub this C2H4NO2R(C2H2NOR)n .... the rest is proprietry

Dune

[evanism]

Turn us all into Mentats.

Need the spice!

Not just computers...

[iq145]

May 31, 2013: World Gets Its Most Accurate Clock - Loses just one second in 50 billion years – Most clocks lose minutes over time and need to be reset—but if you're a scientist or an engineer, you need clocks that are just a bit more reliable. And now researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have created the world's two most accurate atomic clocks. The next time they'll need to be reset—for a mere one-second delay—is in 50.8 billion years. The researcher