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	Biological Computer Born....in 1999

yamdablam

7-16-2007 3:38 PM

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yamdablam says:

Check out the detail Dr Ditto's cv here: makes for interesting reading:
http://www.bme.ufl.edu/contact/directory/detail_person.php?PEOPLE_id=1

Nothing much has surfaced in the main stream media about biological computing in recent years. So you have to wonder, what advances have been made in the 7 years since. Also don't forget when they released this to the public it was old news.

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