Last year Dr Benenson's team developed one of the most complex cell-based molecular circuits created so far, though it is still much simpler than systems built in test tubes.
Cell chips are well suited to processing streams of video and sound, and for modelling the complex three-dimensional worlds of video games, so Cell's debut will be in Sony's next-generation games console, the PlayStation 3, which is expected to contain four of the beasts.
On one page there was a complex mathematical calculation of how fast each cell tower could carry data.
But supporters of embryonic stem cell research said the issue is more complex.
"Cell phones, e-mail, complex phone systems and the Internet all enhance the way megachurches work, " says Thumma, faculty associate at the Hartford Institute.
To repair complex or oddly shaped tissue defects, an injectable cell carrier is desirable to achieve accurate fit and to minimize surgery, he says.
"A human embryo starts out as a single fertilised cell and rapidly divides into a widely complex series of cells that become a human being, " explained Dr McCallion.
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Suntech Power is currently pursuing thin film technology, a low cost PV technology that involves depositing several thin layers of silicon or more complex materials on a substrate such as glass to make a PV cell.
The new study involves a complex method that requires women to donate eggs, and a demanding manipulation of cell components on a tiny scale, Daley said.
When the enzyme complex stops functioning, cellular clutter builds up in ways that prevents basic tasks like cell division from getting done, sometimes causing the cell to kill itself.
One pertinent observation is that dolphins, whales and their kind have brains as anatomically complex as those of humans, and that these brains contain a particular type of nerve cell, known as a spindle cell, that in humans is associated with higher cognitive functions such as abstract reasoning.
Consider the findings of a study in this month's issue of Social Psychology, examining how the "mere presence" of a cell phone -- even when it is not being used -- influences people's performance on complex mental tasks.
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