The next software revolution: programming biological cells | Sara-Jane Dunn
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Biochemistry as Computing - How Can We Decipher This?
i focus on the concept of biology as computation. And that means asking, what de cells compute, and how can we uncover these biological programmes? i started to ask these questions together with some brilliant collaborators at microsop research and the university of cambridge. Together we wanted to understand the biological programme running inside a unique type of cell, an embryonic stem cell. These cells are unique because they are totally naive. If we could figure out how these cells make the decision to become one cell type or another, we might be able to harness them for medicine.
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