Stephen Downes

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This article describes work developing biology-based computation, or 'biocomputation'. "Using synthetic biology, it is now possible to modify the specific nature of each of these steps in biological systems (for example, edit the DNA of living cells to sense new inputs) allowing for the programming of information processing devices with living matter."

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