Computing+Building+Blocks+Created+from+Bacteria+and+DNA

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Researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated that they can build logic gates, which are used for processing information in devices such as computers and microprocessors out of harmless gut bacteria and DNA. As of right now these the most advanced logic gates ever created. Years before researchers just said that Logic Gates could be made but none of them tried to make one that could actually work so thats why this makes it such a big deal and important. "Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, says: "Logic gates are the fundamental building blocks in silicon circuitry that our entire digital age is based on. Without them, we could not process digital information. Now that we have demonstrated that we can replicate these parts using bacteria and DNA, we hope that our work could lead to a new generation of biological processors, whose applications in information processing could be as important as their electronic equivalents." Logic gates are like mini robots that regulate your body, not regulate fully but kinda protect you like how our white blood cells protect us from infections, diseases, and more.... Even though the researchers are not that close to actually building one that could work perfectly. These Logic Gates or "mini robots" as I call them can protect you from stuff that the white blood cells might have not recognized, or dont have defense against. Devices may include sensors that swim inside arteries, detecting the build up of harmful plaque and rapidly delivering medications to the affected zone. Other applications may include sensors that detect and destroy cancer cells inside the body and pollution monitors that can be deployed in the environment, detecting and neutralising dangerous toxins such as arsenic. In the near future scientists and doctors really hope to use these so they can save more lives. these Logic Gates are similar to Nanobot that are also being developed by scientists. These nanobots can be injected into any part of the body for example they can be injected into your brain to cure some diseses or make you more intelligent, they can be injected into your heart's arterys to help fix the clots, can be injected into the cancer aera to kill the cancer cells, they can also be inserted into your body with little cameras that can guide the doctor when he is doing a sugery.

Praneeth