Today, square roots... tomorrow, disease detection! Researchers have developed the most powerful molecular computer ever. If successfully integrated into living cells, it could diagnose disease.

A test-tube circuit made of DNA-based logic gates can calculate the square root of numbers up to 15, using DNA replication and sequence binding to conduct computations. It's excruciatingly slow ...

A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900.

LOS ANGELES - Caltech researchers have produced the most sophisticated DNA-based computer yet, a wet-chemistry system that can calculate the square roots of numbers as high as 15.

DNA logic gates calculate square root using 130 different molecules A DNA-based computer uses simple base-pairing to create AND and OR logic gates … ...

"It can calculate the square root of a 10-bit binary number (within the decimal integer 900) by designing DNA sequences and programming DNA strand displacement reactions," the paper reads.

Using a computer-like system made from engineered DNA, scientists have computed the square root of 900. Biologists have proposed using genetic material ...

This required 4-bit binary numbers – the new prototype implements a 10-bit square root logic circuit, operating up to the decimal integer 900. The computer uses 32 strands of DNA for storing and ...

Unlike a whip-quick calculator, however, this test tube abacus takes close to 10 hours to suss out a square root, he adds.

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are a frontier of post-silicon computing.