Wednesday, November 9, 2011

An 'Operating System' That Runs on Cells Could Create Whole New Life Forms

An 'Operating System' That Runs on Cells Could Create Whole New Life Forms: At the University of Nottingham, a team of researchers is spearheading an ambitious project that could pull synthetic biology out of its niche and into the mainstream. With help from researchers elsewhere in the U.K., the U.S., Israel, and Spain, the team is trying to create a “reprogrammable cell” that can act as the in vivo cell equivalent to a computer’s operating system. In other words, they are trying to create cellular software that would let researchers alter living cells without changing their hardware.

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