Post by KNOWTHIS on May 23, 2007 21:18:15 GMT -5
If it can be used for good, it can be used for bad. What a tool for population control this would be. Once the "useless eater" becomes of no use to the prison warders, let the cellular degradation begin.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070521140917.htm
In A First, Scientists Develop Tiny Implantable Biocomputers
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070521140917.htm
In A First, Scientists Develop Tiny Implantable Biocomputers
Researchers at Harvard University and Princeton University have made a crucial step toward building biological computers, tiny implantable devices that can monitor the activities and characteristics of human cells. The information provided by these "molecular doctors," constructed entirely of DNA, RNA, and proteins, could eventually revolutionize medicine by directing therapies only to diseased cells or tissues.
A biocomputer's calculations, while mathematically simple, could allow researchers to build biosensors or medicine delivery systems capable of singling out very specific types or groups of cells in the human body. Molecular automata could allow doctors to specifically target only cancerous or diseased cells via a sophisticated integration of intracellular disease signals, leaving healthy cells completely unaffected.