A team from the Scripps Research Instiute in California and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology claims to have developed the world’s first ‘biological computer’ that is made from bio-molecules and can decipher images encrypted on DNA chips. This computer is built by combining chemical components into a solution in a tube. Various small DNA molecules are mixed in solution with selected DNA enzymes and ATP. The latter is used as the energy source of the device. In the research, when suitable software was applied to the biological computer, the scientists found that it could decrypt, seperately, fluorescent images of Scrippes Research Instiute and Technion logos. And, although DNA has been used for encryption in the past, this is the first experimental demonstration of a molecular cryptosystem of images based on DNA computing.
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