Dr Emmott reckons that a biologicalcomputer might find it easier to cope with problems that have foxed the traditional, silicon variety for decades such as how to recognise what it is that they see.
We will work to keep terrorists from disrupting computer networks, to prepare local communities for biological and chemical emergencies, and to support research into vaccines and treatments.
My friend Tim, for example, went to Stanford University, graduated with a degree in Biological Sciences, works in medical devices and is now being tutored in computer science on weeknights and weekends.
Glasberg said a television network had obtained a copy of a novel Hatfill was writing -- about biological warfare -- that could have only come from the scientist's computer, which federal authorities have confiscated.
While it is likely that getting such a computer to function inside a living cell remains some way off, the remarkably rapid progress of biological computers in controlled lab conditions means that that distant day looks to be getting closer.