Researchers build largest biochemical circuit out of small synthetic DNA molecules
Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 17:30
in Physics & Chemistry
In many ways, life is like a computer. An organism's genome is the software that tells the cellular and molecular machinery -- the hardware -- what to do. But instead of electronic circuitry, life relies on biochemical circuitry -- complex networks of reactions and pathways that enable organisms to function. Now, researchers have built the most complex biochemical circuit ever created from scratch.