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DNA computers
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9-24-2007 1:59 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8239fd21-7c2a-4e44-855c-c0183d215ea0/0EAA84FD-5FA2-44DC-B042-A9F1BC2DE93A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DNA_computing&oldid=153455585" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DNA_computing&oldid=153455585" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DNA_computing&oldid=153455585"><B>DNA computing</B> is a form of <A title="Computing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing">computing</A> which uses <A title="DNA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA">DNA</A> and <A title="Biochemistry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemistry">biochemistry</A> and <A title="Molecular biology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_biology">molecular biology</A>, instead of the traditional silicon-based <A title="Computer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer">computer</A> <A title="Technology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology">technologies</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DNA_computing&oldid=153455585"><P>In 2002, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, unveiled a programmable molecular computing machine composed of enzymes and DNA molecules instead of silicon microchips. The computer could perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DNA_computing&oldid=153455585"><P>On <A title="April 28" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_28">April 28</A>, <A title="2004" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004">2004</A>, <A title="Ehud Shapiro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Shapiro">Ehud Shapiro</A>, Yaakov Benenson, Binyamin Gil, Uri Ben-Dor, and Rivka Adar at the <A title="Weizmann Institute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weizmann_Institute">Weizmann Institute</A> announced in the journal <A title="Nature (journal)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29">Nature</A> that they had constructed a DNA computer. This was coupled with an input and output module and is capable of diagnosing <A title="Cancer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer">cancerous</A> activity within a cell, and then releasing an anti-cancer drug upon diagnosis.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0EAA84FD-5FA2-44DC-B042-A9F1BC2DE93A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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