Using analog computation circuits, engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 18:00
in Physics & Chemistry
MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts. Inspired by how analog electronic circuits function, the researchers created synthetic computation circuits by combining existing genetic "parts," or engineered genes, in novel ways.