{"id":80921,"date":"2018-07-25T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/dna-computing-gets-a-boost-with-this-machine-learning-hack"},"modified":"2018-07-25T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T09:22:22","slug":"dna-computing-gets-a-boost-with-this-machine-learning-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/dna-computing-gets-a-boost-with-this-machine-learning-hack","title":{"rendered":"DNA Computing Gets a Boost With This Machine Learning Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-computing-gets-a-boost-with-this-machine-learning-hack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the master code of life, DNA can do a lot of things. Inheritance. <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/01\/09\/gene-therapy-had-a-breakthrough-2017-2018-may-be-even-better\/\">Gene therapy<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/11\/29\/gene-drives-can-eliminate-transmissible-diseases-for-good-but-whats-the-price\/\">Wipe out an entire species<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/04\/12\/scientists-hacked-a-cells-dna-and-made-a-biocomputer-out-of-it\/\">Solve logic problems<\/a>. Recognize your sloppy handwriting.<\/p>\n<p><b>Wait, What?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-018-0289-6\">a brilliant study<\/a> published in <em>Nature<\/em>, a team from Caltech cleverly hacked the properties of DNA, essentially turning it into a molecular artificial neural network.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/07\/24\/dna-computing-gets-a-boost-with-this-machine-learning-hack\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fd19cf0ff3-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-fd19cf0ff3-58220945#sm.001u2lbsc14r0f4ow6a1ey3eg8csi\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/07\/24\/dna-computing-gets-a-b...1ey3eg8csi<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the master code of life, DNA can do a lot of things. Inheritance. Gene therapy. Wipe out an entire species. Solve logic problems. Recognize your sloppy handwriting. Wait, What? In a brilliant study published in Nature, a team from Caltech cleverly hacked the properties of DNA, essentially turning it into a molecular artificial neural [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80921","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=80921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}