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memory switches:Supercomputer explores biochemical landscape

eurekalert.org — "Our exploration using System X is rather like how a tinkerer or a kid puts together things to see if they do something useful. We took a lot of 'spare parts', each spare part being one chemical reaction, connected them together every which way, and we found that a surprising number of these artificially constructed networks actually were switches,

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  • navdeep321, on 06/22/2008, -0/+4As we gain more and more computing power, we will keep using these powerful and accurate simulations to unlock secrets in every area in science, and eventually give us full control over matter. Go science!
  • S4MF1SHER, on 06/22/2008, -0/+4Pretty cool. Maybe we can determine what "switches" activate dormant diseases/illnesses in people.
  • cuoops, on 06/22/2008, -0/+3source - http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2008&it ...
  • inactive, on 06/22/2008, -4/+7DIE FIEND!
  • Craga89, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2I'm still waiting for us to have enough computing power and biological knowledge to accurately simulate a human brain, just to see the kind of ethical problems it will bring up. I can't begin to imagine the uproar by the religious community if it ever happened.
  • hollyminkowski, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2Looks like a real breakthrough that will help advance the use of nanotechnology in medicine.

    "Live long enough to live forever" Ray Kurzweil
  • voodoosteve84, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1Maybe this will lead to a chemical computer
  • lilixia, on 06/22/2008, -1/+0wwwww
  • imbob, on 06/22/2008, -4/+2ILL BURY YOU!
  • inactive, on 06/22/2008, -7/+3Down already? >.<

    I bet it won't run Crysis on full detail anyways.
  • willdelaney, on 06/22/2008, -6/+1why do i care about this
  • Ice9NC, on 06/22/2008, -5/+0Does the mere act of analyzing something with a switch based system, make something a switch based system.
    Heisenberg???
  • inactive, on 06/22/2008, -6/+1bio-ass. the last porn frontier
  • imbob, on 06/22/2008, -11/+4ok so i didnt read it! but if a computer can do that

    can it run crysis?

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