Ehud Shapiro.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 6, 2004, págs. 50-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Focuses on the creation of a DNA computer by Ehud Shapiro, a professor of computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Construction of a DNA computer that diagnoses cancer and then releases a drug to treat it. Ehud Shapiro's research group is known for having developed the world's smallest biological computing device, a DNA computer produced in 2002. Now it has put together a similar computer that releases a cancer-fighting drug if the correct conditions are met. The first part of the computer consists of short DNA strands that bind to four varieties of messenger RNA produced by genes involved in a specific cancer. The research group demonstrated the computer in test tubes, with messenger RNA levels adjusted by hand.