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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher Entagata. Got a minute?

Our smartphones, tablets, laptops, they all compute things electronically. But think outside that

silicon box for a second. There's nothing special about electrons in using silicon as part of

computing. Chris Voigt, a bioengineer at MIT.

You can do computing with any number of things.

Including, he says, DNA.

Cells do computing all the time,

so they're constantly trying to interpret their environment

and be able to turn on different genes and respond to it.

And those genes in a cellular circuit, they're like the logic gates, the memory, and other

systems found in conventional computers.

So Void and his colleagues created what he calls the first human-made programming language for

living cells.

It's an open-source design environment called cello.

You just write what you want the cell to do, and cell spits out the DNA sequence, as if you were compiling code. The researchers

used the platform to design 60 genetic circuits, which they then ran inside E. coli bacteria.

And many of these DNA-based circuits allow bacteria to sense environmental data, like the levels of oxygen or glucose in the gut, and respond in various ways.

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