{"id":246453,"date":"2026-11-03T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/biocomputer-can-explore-multiple-solutions-at-once-as-bacteria-multiply-in-tiny-interconnected-channels"},"modified":"2026-11-03T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:10:41","slug":"biocomputer-can-explore-multiple-solutions-at-once-as-bacteria-multiply-in-tiny-interconnected-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/biocomputer-can-explore-multiple-solutions-at-once-as-bacteria-multiply-in-tiny-interconnected-channels","title":{"rendered":"Biocomputer can explore multiple solutions at once as bacteria multiply in tiny, interconnected channels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A McGill-led research team has developed a bacteria-based biocomputer that can solve large, complex problems using a small fraction of the memory and resources required by standard (\u201csolid-state\u201d) computers. Possible applications include encryption, molecular biology and artificial intelligence, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>Solid-state computers test each possible solution sequentially, which can take years or even centuries to deliver results for complex problems. In contrast, bacteria can explore many possible solutions simultaneously. Additionally, bacteria can divide to create more biological \u201cprocessors,\u201d they explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModern electronic computers make millions of operations per second using one chip,\u201d said Dan Nicolau, senior author and professor of bioengineering. \u201cWith bacterial division, we have 1 million chips working at the same time. More chips mean you can resolve the problem faster, even if for each \u2018processor,\u2019 the number of operations per second is slower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A McGill-led research team has developed a bacteria-based biocomputer that can solve large, complex problems using a small fraction of the memory and resources required by standard (\u201csolid-state\u201d) computers. Possible applications include encryption, molecular biology and artificial intelligence, the researchers said. Solid-state computers test each possible solution sequentially, which can take years or even centuries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,1625,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-encryption","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246453","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}