{"id":20038,"date":"2015-12-16T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T21:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/will-this-dna-molecular-switch-replace-conventional-transistors"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:39","slug":"will-this-dna-molecular-switch-replace-conventional-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/will-this-dna-molecular-switch-replace-conventional-transistors","title":{"rendered":"Will this DNA molecular switch replace conventional transistors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-this-dna-molecular-switch-replace-conventional-transistors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A model of one form of double-stranded DNA attached to two electrodes (credit: UC Davis)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What do you call a DNA molecule that changes between high and low electrical conductance (amount of current flow)?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: a molecular switch (transistor) for nanoscale computing. That\u2019s what a team of researchers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ucdavis.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California, Davis<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Washington<\/a> have documented in a paper published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2015\/151209\/ncomms9870\/full\/ncomms9870.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nature Communications<\/em><\/a> Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/will-this-dna-molecular-switch-replace-conventional-transistors?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e053be880f-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-e053be880f-281884789\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A model of one form of double-stranded DNA attached to two electrodes (credit: UC Davis) What do you call a DNA molecule that changes between high and low electrical conductance (amount of current flow)? Answer: a molecular switch (transistor) for nanoscale computing. That\u2019s what a team of researchers from the University of California, Davis and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69007,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions\/69007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}