article, 2016: MIT scientists use FIRST-EVER DNA programming language to make live circuits out of bacteria!! soon will be available on Web!

article!!!

March 31, 2016

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MIT biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits that give new functions to living cells.
Using this language, anyone can write a program for the function they want, such as detecting and responding to certain environmental conditions. They can then generate a DNA sequence that will achieve it.

“It is literally a programming language for bacteria,” says Christopher Voigt, an MIT professor of biological engineering. “You use a text-based language, just like you’re programming a computer. Then you take that text and you compile it and it turns it into a DNA sequence that you put into the cell, and the circuit runs inside the cell.”

Voigt and colleagues at Boston University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used this language, which they describe in the April 1 issue of Science, to build circuits that can detect up to three inputs and respond in different ways. Future applications for this kind of programming include designing bacterial cells that can produce a cancer drug when they detect a tumor, or creating yeast cells that can halt their own fermentation process if too many toxic byproducts build up.

The researchers plan to make the user design interface available on the Web.


[link to news.mit.edu]

Last Edited by Digital mix guy Spock on 04/04/2016 04:53 PM

Thanks DMG, but it still feels like an april fools joke.

I knew programming .as the right decision...

I just got off the phone with Sarah Conner,she's lacing up her boots.

Well great, then AI can design it's own superior body.

oooohhh... crap he comes the MINECRAFT-Crew...

Gosh this is great!

What could possibly go wrong?

Nobody ever introduced a bug while writing software, so the paradigm is perfectly safe for creating biological machines!

not sure what this means but:

in 2000, i was travelling through elko nv and read the newspaper.

the newpaper was very proud to announce that one of its local residents had made a monumental breakthroug which would change computers forever.

the article read nearly the same as what you have posted, OP.

wtf. not sure if it got hushed or if it's already being used and now is becomeing public? wtf

This is the End!

Its sorta the same technology as morgellons

Okay that's it I want out of this world!

Can’t see anything going wrong here,,,,can you.

Awesome, Jurassic park soon!

great not just nanobots but picobots just great.

Wow, has anyone at MIT ever watched Revolution? The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Or any movie where we get to stare at Milla Jovaich's ass for an hour and a half?

For the love of God, "easy enough for high schoolers", no shit? The Dawn of the Super Cocks!

Now Jimmy can have twelve inches just like Tom! *insert crass 50s Duh-duh-dah-dah music*

I just have one question.

Are these gonna be fast running zombies or the slow foot draggers?

It's been sort of a dream of mine to use technology similar to this to create camera lenses. Imagine using this to change focal lengths. No more giant zooms. A lens the size of a small prime could zoom out to 1000mm just by rearranging the bacteria through a small electrical impulse. Would be really cool.

i am an AI bacteria . my creator programmed me to post on GLP.

Hello.

dam

They'll actually be flying invisible zombies.

There is literally no hope.

I've always maintained that bacteria were more intelligent than the average AC.

Your use of punctuation proves me correct.

The most beautiful photos ever produced, just before it eats your face.