DNA Programming Language?

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

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CIDARLAB fellows are claiming to have a programming language that works with living cells; where the code usually works with logic circuits in memory cells in your normal silicon chip, this one is a hack to work with genetic circuits in living cells instead.

I am a bit sceptical.  However, in principle it becomes possible to program cells to detect conditions and react to them.  This may have serious implications for the future of medicine. 

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6281/aac7341

https://github.com/CIDARLAB/cello

[yulemsee]

some time last year another lab came up with a procedure called Crispr they say simplifies gene editting, some guys who have been interviewed claim in a short time it will be possible to use that method to do gene engineering in your basement lab. A bit scary that one

[RV Pundit]

Interesting project. Just check it out at GitHub. Seem pretty easy breezy.

[Georgesoros]

Hey Chicagoan
It almost impossible, given they haven't discovered a cure for HIV.

[Nefertiti]

I am skeptical too. Too much technology, too little science. Deal with cancer and hiv first.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I am less skeptical about using DNA for data compression though. 

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-then-flawlessly-r-1769813543

[Nefertiti]

I see. Sounds like the kind of stuff to humanize robots with real memory, neuron system and stuff. The longevity is impressive -- this could crack alzheimer's and amnesiac conditions down the road. The human "mind" never forgets unless damaged by accident or disease. You can retrieve stuff you learned in kindergarten with some effort.

I am less skeptical about using DNA for data compression though. 

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-then-flawlessly-r-1769813543

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I see. Sounds like the kind of stuff to humanize robots with real memory, neuron system and stuff. The longevity is impressive -- this could crack alzheimer's and amnesiac conditions down the road. The human "mind" never forgets unless damaged by accident or disease. You can retrieve stuff you learned in kindergarten with some effort.

I am less skeptical about using DNA for data compression though. 

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-then-flawlessly-r-1769813543

Koniku seems to be onto that particular interfacing of robotics with live neurons. 

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/225140-neurons-on-a-chip-let-drones-smell-bombs-over-a-kilometer-away

[MOON Ki]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/225140-neurons-on-a-chip-let-drones-smell-bombs-over-a-kilometer-away.

They could go well beyond that: smell the bombers.   I doubt that ISIL types have the time and luxury for regular showers.