Self Assembling DNA Computers


	Self Assembling DNA Computers
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12-21-2008 3:41 PM
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science, computers, self assembling, dna, memory
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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/f818c83a-fea8-4dba-b8dd-f6614e9c6c2f/37D40E1A-94F7-43D5-9B2F-B8F8E9F68DF8/" 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://www.futurenerd.net/self-assembling-circuits" href="http://www.futurenerd.net/self-assembling-circuits" style="font-size: 11px;">www.futurenerd.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.futurenerd.net/self-assembling-circuits"><H2><A rel="bookmark" href="http://www.futurenerd.net/self-assembling-circuits" title="Permanent Link to Self Assembling Circuits" linkindex="15" set="yes">Self Assembling Circuits</A></H2></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://www.futurenerd.net/self-assembling-circuits"><P>A new study that comes to us from <A href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/self-assembling-computers-come-closer-to-reality_100107857.html" linkindex="24" set="yes">physicists in the EU</A> has shown that they can create a self assembling computer circuit. This breakthrough, while currently in its lab stages could eventually be brought to the marketplace, and revolutionize how computer parts, and even whole systems are made.</P></blockquote><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://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" 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://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111001" href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111001" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nsf.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111001"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nsf.gov/img/34FCABAB-A2C2-4CBD-A8F3-E501E53CC89B" alt="Molecular Walker" /></div></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://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111001"><P>Researchers at the California Institute of Technology report they are able to program the pathways by which DNA molecules self-assemble, and hence to engineer diverse dynamic functions at the molecular level.</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; 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