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Related: About this forumBasic computing elements created in bacteria - possible diagnosis aid
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Basic computing elements created in bacteria
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Researchers unveil a series of sensors, memory switches, and circuits that can be encoded in the common human gut bacterium. These basic computing elements will allow the bacteria to sense, memorize, and respond to signals in the gut, with future applications that might include the early detection and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease or colon cancer, they say.
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Basic computing elements created in bacteria - possible diagnosis aid (Original Post)
Panich52
Jul 2015
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. First viruses, now bacteria... n/t
-none
(1,884 posts)2. A living computer in a petri dish.
Now about the I/O devices...
GeorgeGist
(25,570 posts)3. Oh fuck ...
how will the oligarchs abuse this discovery?