Researchers at Stanford University have created genetic receptors that can act as a "biological computer" . The team has created a series of genetic transistors that can be inserted into cells and turned on and off if certain conditions are met.
"Once the transistor determines the conditions are met, it could then be used to make the cell, and many other cells around it, do a specific thing--like telling cancerous cells to destroy themselves."
"The researchers' biological transistors, which they've dubbed "transcriptors," use enzymes to control the flow of RNA proteins along a strand of DNA, just like a computer would use silicon transistors to control the flow of electrons."
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