{"id":149655,"date":"2022-11-07T19:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-build-synthetic-molecular-machines-that-can-read-data"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:23:26","slug":"scientists-build-synthetic-molecular-machines-that-can-read-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-build-synthetic-molecular-machines-that-can-read-data","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Build Synthetic Molecular Machines That Can Read Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-synthetic-molecular-machines-that-can-read-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turing\u2019s machine should sound familiar for another reason. It\u2019s similar to the way ribosomes read genetic code on ribbons of RNA to construct proteins.<\/p>\n<p>Cellular factories are a kind of natural Turing machine. What Leigh\u2019s team is after would work the same way but go beyond biochemistry. These microscopic Turing machines, or molecular computers, would allow engineers to write code for some physical output onto a synthetic molecular ribbon. Another molecule would travel along the ribbon, read (and one day write) the code, and output some specified action, like catalyzing a chemical reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Leigh\u2019s team says they\u2019ve built the first components of a molecular computer: A coded molecular ribbon and a mobile molecular reader of the code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turing\u2019s machine should sound familiar for another reason. It\u2019s similar to the way ribosomes read genetic code on ribbons of RNA to construct proteins. Cellular factories are a kind of natural Turing machine. What Leigh\u2019s team is after would work the same way but go beyond biochemistry. These microscopic Turing machines, or molecular computers, would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,412,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149655","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}