{"id":100387,"date":"2020-01-02T04:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/a-computer-made-from-dna-can-compute-the-square-root-of-900"},"modified":"2020-01-02T04:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:43:17","slug":"a-computer-made-from-dna-can-compute-the-square-root-of-900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/a-computer-made-from-dna-can-compute-the-square-root-of-900","title":{"rendered":"A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-computer-made-from-dna-can-compute-the-square-root-of-9002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Donna Lu<\/p>\n<p>A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900.<\/p>\n<p>Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer that uses 32 strands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/term\/dna\/\">DNA<\/a> to store and process information. It can calculate the square root of square numbers 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 and so on up to 900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Donna Lu A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900. Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer that uses 32 strands of DNA to store and process information. It can calculate the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}