NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Biological Computers Encrypt and Decipher Images

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Biological Computers Encrypt and Decipher Images

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NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Biological Computers Encrypt and Decipher Images via Beyond the Beyond

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have developed a “biological computer” made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering 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.

Instead of using traditional computer hardware, a group led by Professor Ehud Keinan of Scripps Research and the Technion created a computing system using bio-molecules. When suitable software was applied to the biological computer, it could decrypt, separately, fluorescent images of The Scripps Research Institute and Technion logos.

DNA computing, bio-hacking bio-molecules to do image recognition.

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