We live in a world where computers can power the entire world wide web, create music and art, and even write college essays. But when it comes to taming biology, we have not been able to take full ...

Have you ever heard of a computer made by connecting living brain cells to electronic devices? Sound like something out of a nightmare or a dystopian sci-fi novel? It's not. This is the subject of a ...

Supercomputers are absurdly impressive in terms of raw power, but it comes at a price: size and energy consumption. A multi-university team of researchers might've sidestepped that, though, with ...

Swiss innovators have recently unveiled a ‘living’ computer or biocomputer that utilizes 16 human mini-brains, also known as organoids to perform computational tasks. This innovative system was ...

What's the News: One of biologists' favorite fantasies is a doctor who can fit inside a cell. This tiny physician, likely a device built from DNA, would make diagnoses by sensing molecules floating ...

A video interview with Brett Kagan, CSO of Australia's Cortical Labs Dr. Brett Kagan, CSO of Cortical Labs. Photo courtesy of Cortical Labs “Biocomputers made from brain cells could be used to predict ...

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A FRANKENSTEIN-like biocomputer powered by human mini-brains could become the world’s first living processor, claim its creators. The ghoulish project – which ...

A groundbreaking biocomputer out of strands of RNA can respond to cell conditions, paving the way for smart drugs that medicate precisely. Researchers have created a "biocomputer" out of strands of ...

Washington: Scientists have developed a new DNA-based logic circuit which they say can identify and kill cancer cells without harming the healthy ones. The researchers, who developed the cell-level ...