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Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes
Topic: Technology 9:30 am EST, Feb 26, 2003

] Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can
] perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than
] 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It
] runs on DNA.
]
] A year ago, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of
] Science in Rehovot, Israel, unveiled a programmable
] molecular computing machine composed of enzymes and DNA
] molecules instead of silicon microchips. Now the team has
] gone one step further. In the new device, the single DNA
] molecule that provides the computer with the input data
] also provides all the necessary fuel.

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