Comments on: Synthetic Bacterial Computers

Synthetic Bacterial Computers

peacay — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:19:22 -0800

Multilingual bacteria are being used in synthetic biology techniques to display computer functionality.

By: blendor

blendor — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:44:57 -0800

Very cool! Thanks! So when do I get my quantum-bio computer?

By: davy

davy — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:33:36 -0800

"Multilingual" bacteria? I didn't know bacteria had any language ability. I wonder how their grammar is.

By: MetalDog

MetalDog — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:53:25 -0800

They talk! So those bacteria really were having a party on my throat last month.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:57:04 -0800

On the same site, don't forget to look-up the World's Ugliest Animals.

By: kozad

kozad — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:02:11 -0800

I'd like to see what the folks at Language Log have to say about this chemical exchange qualifying as "language."

By: blacklite

blacklite — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:38:36 -0800

Okay, that's interesting stuff. Cool.

By: digaman

digaman — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:51:00 -0800

I know I seem to be on a self-linking rampage this week -- my apologies! -- but I wrote a profile of Bonnie Bassler and her work in 2003 that may provide some helpful background in understanding the concept of bacterial communication.

By: peacay

peacay — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:21:44 -0800

digaman, you are the man! Great article - I wish I'd searched around on BB's name. The cell-cell communication is a really unusual area of study, but with definite real world application potential. We will hear much more about synthetic biology in the future no doubt.

By: daHIFI

daHIFI — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:38:14 -0800

Here is a page about MIT's synthetic biology department that was written in January on Wired. Life, Reinvented