For billions of years, life has used long molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, to store information and solve problems.
Today engineers are putting their own spin on DNA computing, to both record data and serve as biological computers, yet until now they’ve struggled to design a synthetic system that can store and perform tasks at the same time.
New research has now demonstrated it’s possible to package and present DNA so it can manage both, providing a full suite of computing functions out of strings of nucleic acids. Specifically, we’re talking about storing, reading, erasing, moving, and rewriting data, and handling these functions in programmable and repeatable ways, similar to how a conventional computer would operate.
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