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RNA circuits transform cells into nanodevices with 12 input logic

In new research, Alex Green, an assistant professor at ASU’s Biodesign Institute, demonstrates how living cells can be induced to carry out computations in the manner of tiny robots or computers. The ...

Is This the End of the Silicon Era? Scientists Unveil World’s First 2D Computer

Researchers at Penn State have developed the first silicon-free computer using atom-thin materials. This breakthrough could reshape the future of electronics, paving the way for ultra-efficient, ...
Science Daily

Advancing graphene for post-silicon computer logic

Scientists have solved a problem that previously presented a serious hurdle for the use of graphene in electronic devices. A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside's Bourns ...
Science Daily

Cell circuits remember their history: Engineers design new synthetic biology circuits that combine memory and logic

Engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, which are encoded in the cell's DNA and passed on for dozens of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Vertically stacked, low-voltage organic ternary logic circuits including nonvolatile floating-gate memory transistors

Researchers demonstrate “a low-voltage organic ternary logic circuit, in which the organic HTR was vertically integrated with the organic nonvolatile flash memory.” “Multi-valued logic (MVL) circuits ...
Physics World

Liquid droplets create logic circuits

Multiple droplets of a magnetic fluid have been used to create all of the fundamental logic circuits within a computer. Created by researchers in the US, the circuits are made by having the ...