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by Staff
November 4, 2014
Creation of electrical wire made out of molecules could lead to the miniaturization of computers
A team of Israeli scientists has pioneered a functioning electrical wire made out of DNA, which could lead to a breakthrough in computers. The scientists managed to transmit electricity along a four-stranded DNA molecule they created. The discovery – published in the journal of Nature Nanotechnology earlier this week – could lead to the miniaturization of computers within a few years.
“Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC,” wrote National Geographic.
“This research paves the way for implementing DNA-based programmable circuits for molecular electronics, which could lead to a new generation of computer circuits that can be more sophisticated, cheaper and simpler to make,” said Prof. Danny Porath of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who headed the project along with Prof. Alexander Kotlyar of Tel Aviv University……
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