Chicory already is pitching designs for accelerating the processing of video and audio streams, as well as accelerators for converting code written for cell phone chips designed by ARM, the British shop, into code that can be read by Pentiums and other chips.
The HIV retrovirus, in particular, is a single-stranded RNA virus that duplicates itself in a host cell by converting its genetic code into double-stranded DNA that is then inserted into the host cell.
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Due to its strong patent position, it also collects fees from 195 licensees, spanning most of the cell-phone industry for code-division, multiple-access technology, which is the standard communications technology in cellular networks.
The host cell has no idea that its genetic code (which it generally needs to produce new, healthy cells) has been hijacked, for a long time at least, until the code has been copied and read to reproduce the virus many, many times by the host cell.
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An organism's genes--the entire recipe book that explains whether a cell is part of a plant, a moth, a mouse or a person--are written in code on strands of DNA inside the cell called chromosomes.
Instead of labels, GenVault puts a tiny bit of unique rice DNA into each human cell sample, a sort of permanent bar code for the samples.
DeCode will search for obesity genes by looking through a population of 70, 000 Icelanders and checking for differences in their DNA. Genes that obese people have in common will be pinpointed within the 3.1 billion letters of DNA code found in nearly every human cell.
Companies are implanting bar code scanners in pens, key fobs, cell phones and pagers.
And when genomics pioneer Craig Venter and colleagues created the first synthetic cell in 2010, they wrote their names into its DNA code, the way an artist might sign a painting, along with three literary quotations and a website address.
Not because attackers launch it from their cell phones (although they can) but because they use a mobile code.
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Using his cell phone, Lytle logged on to the server, fiddled with some code and promptly got it back up.
Now, Qualcomm is a promising telecom company with a lock on a technology (called code division multiple access) that is becoming the standard for digital cell phones.
"Essentially we know the ZIP code of vessels within a certain tissue, we can program the address on the surface of the cell, " he said.
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