Scientists Built A Tiny Book Sized Protein Powered Biocomputer Techworm
“For a bigger problem we have to make a larger computer,” Dan Nicolau, chair of the department of bioengineering at McGill, told CBC News. At the centre of the model is a 1.5 square-centimetre microchip, which uses myosin, molecular motors that perform mechanical tasks in living cells, to move protein filaments along artificial paths. In a traditional computer, electrons are pushed through a chip by an electrical charge. But in the biocomputer, short strings of proteins are powered by Adenosine triphosphate, the chemical that provides energy to the cells in our bodies....