{"id":35127,"date":"2017-03-06T23:08:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T07:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/first-hint-of-how-dna-calculators-could-supercharge-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:59","slug":"first-hint-of-how-dna-calculators-could-supercharge-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/first-hint-of-how-dna-calculators-could-supercharge-computing","title":{"rendered":"First hint of how DNA calculators could supercharge computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-hint-of-how-dna-calculators-could-supercharge-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Matt Reynolds<\/p>\n<p>By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/round-up\/quantum-buyers-guide\/\">quantum computers<\/a>. It\u2019s still a long way from being functional though.<\/p>\n<p>The DNA-based system is an experiment in how it may be possible to make a theoretical type of computer known as a non-deterministic universal Turing machine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2123322-first-hint-of-how-dna-calculators-could-supercharge-computing\/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook&utm_term=Autofeed&cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2017-Echobox#link_time=1488486524\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2123322-first-hint-of-h...1488486524<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Reynolds By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even quantum computers. It\u2019s still a long way from being functional though. The DNA-based system is an experiment in how it may be possible to make a theoretical type [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58475,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127\/revisions\/58475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}