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.

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