While it is likely that getting such a computer to function inside a living cell remains some way off, the remarkably rapid progress of biologicalcomputers in controlled lab conditions means that that distant day looks to be getting closer.
According to the company, its system can handle virtually any AI application that can be translated to a Markov random field a special type of statistical model used for applications such as vision problems for computers or determining biological pathways.
The boffins in Palo Alto want to build computers out of living tissue, and to that end they've created a biological transistor, called the transcriptor.