{"id":26439,"date":"2016-06-03T20:32:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T03:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/gene-circuits-in-live-cells-can-perform-complex-computations"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:40:33","slug":"gene-circuits-in-live-cells-can-perform-complex-computations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/gene-circuits-in-live-cells-can-perform-complex-computations","title":{"rendered":"Gene circuits in live cells can perform complex computations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-circuits-in-live-cells-can-perform-complex-computations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course it can \u2014 why we have Biocomputing efforts today.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Living cells are capable of performing complex computations on the environmental signals they encounter.<\/p>\n<p>These computations can be continuous, or analogue, in nature\u2014the way eyes adjust to gradual changes in the light levels. They can also be digital, involving simple on or off processes, such as a cell\u2019s initiation of its own death.<\/p>\n<p>Synthetic biological systems, in contrast, have tended to focus on either analogue or digital processing, limiting the range of applications for which they can be used.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-06-gene-circuits-cells-complex.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;06-gene-circuits-cells-complex.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course it can \u2014 why we have Biocomputing efforts today. Living cells are capable of performing complex computations on the environmental signals they encounter. These computations can be continuous, or analogue, in nature\u2014the way eyes adjust to gradual changes in the light levels. They can also be digital, involving simple on or off processes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50318,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions\/50318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}