Israel Institute of Technology and the Scripps Research Institute have developed a biological computer composed entirely of DNA

The molecules and enzymes were constructed on a gold-coated chip, which can accept as many as one billion programs. The biomolecules can decipher images encrypted on DNA chips. Although DNA has been used for encryption in the past, this is the first experimental demonstration of a molecular cryptosystem of images based on DNA computing.

Journal of the American Chemical Society published the results, Proffesor Ehud Keinan said “An equally significant breakthrough is the incorporation of chips as an integral part of the computer”. He noted that a computer is, by definition, a machine made of four components: hardware, software, input and output; and that all current computers are electronic machines comprising a complex composition of metallic and plastic components, wires, transistors, etc., and the software is a sequence of instructions given to the machine in the form of electronic signals.

Keinan said “In contrast to electronic computers, there are computing machines in which all four components are nothing but molecules, for example, all biological systems, and even entire living organisms, are such computers. Every one of us is a bio-molecular computer, that is, a machine in which all four components are molecules “talking” to one another in a logical manner.”

The biological Technion computer is built by combining chemical components into a solution in a tube. Small DNA molecules are mixed in solution with selected DNA enzymes and ATP.

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