A DNA-based computer uses simple base-pairing to create AND and OR logic gates. 130 different double-stranded molecules later, the answer to a square root calculation popped out.

DNA is like software, telling our cellular and molecular hardware what to do – except it uses biochemical reactions rather than the electronic circuitry of computers we’re used to. Now, researchers ...

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Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems ...