DNA molecules: Engineers invent programming language to build synthetic DNA.

Write a code for DNA molecules is not something we see and share every. Henceforth due to a team led by the University of Washington, chemists soon could be able to use a structured set of instructions to “program” how DNA molecules interact in a test tube or cell.

Connectikpeople has discovered that, a team led by the University of Washington has developed a programming language for chemistry, with the goal to streamline efforts to

design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars, robots and other devices. ‘’In medicine, such networks could serve as “smart” drug deliverers or disease detectors at the cellular level’’.

Based on, the reality that, currently, when a biologist or chemist makes a certain type of molecular network, the engineering process is complex, cumbersome and hard to repurpose for building other systems, the engineers wanted to create a framework that gives scientists more flexibility and to solve more than one problem.

Source: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano.2013.189.html