New Tools Advance Bio-Logic

August 5, 2014

(R & D Magazine) – The researchers are creating complex genetic logic circuits similar to those used to build traditional computers and electrical devices. In a simple circuit, if one input and another input are both present, the circuit carries out its instruction. With genetic circuitry based on this type of Boolean logic, a genetic logic circuit might prompt the creation of a specific protein when it senses two chemicals—or prompt a cell’s DNA to repress the creation of that protein.