DNA fix for school timetables
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 04:38
in Mathematics & Economics
Scientists in Russia plan to use DNA -- our genetic material -- to help them solve one of the perennial "back to school" problems faced by school administrators the world over: how to match up students, with classes and available teachers. DNA's ability to store information can be used to encode the timetabling problem and then a solution read out using enzymes, according to the scientists.