News Writer:
Jessica Stoller-Conrad
Conceptual representation of programming languages for specifying molecular components and molecular systems, part of the Molecular Programming Project.
Credit: Lulu Qian, Caltech
During the past century, programmable technologies evolved from spinning gears and vacuum tubes to transistors and microchips. Now, a group of Caltech researchers and their colleagues at the University of Washington, Harvard University, and UC San Francisco are exploring how biologically important molecules—like DNA, RNA, and proteins—could be the next generation of programmable devices.