FUTURE COMPUTERS MAY BE DNA-BASED

We've all heard our brain likened to a computer. But professor Jian-Jun Shu and his students at Nanyang Technical University are taking that comparison quite literally.

Shu and his team at the university's School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have proposed a way to use DNA strands for computing operations.

Their article “DNA-Based Computing of Strategic Assignment Problems,” was recently published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Shu points out that the human body performs computations that are naturally more faster than even the fastest silicon-based computer.

"No matter how fast tomorrow's conventional silicon-based computer can become," their article states,"in order to solve specific classes of problems, it may take the fastest silicon-based computer months or even years to process the calculations. This is mainly due to the serial computing nature of the conventional silicon-based computer."

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