First “Biological Computer” That Can Read DNA

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a “biological computer” made from biomolecules, which is capable of decrypting images stored on DNA chips.
The Biological Computation group aims to uncover the fundamental principles of biological computation, such as what cells compute, how and why?  It focuses primarily on developing new computational techniques that enable multiscale Biological modeling, from molecules to cells to systems.
According to a press release issued by The Scripps Research Institute, a group led by the Institute’s Ehud Keinan created a computing system using biomolecules and when suitable software was applied to it, the computer could decrypt, separately, fluorescent images of the two institutes’ logos that were encrypted on a single DNA chip.

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