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A molecular computer to classify cells

Konstantinos Samaras-Tsakiris · CERN

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Cancer cells are so similar to healthy ones on the outside, that chemotherapy has severe side effects. On the inside, however, there is a vocabulary of small nucleic acids (the miRNAs), with significantly different distributions between the two... Smells like an opportunity for classification! If only we had a small molecular computer to leverage this disparity, programmable to optimally recognize different classes of cells and, once inside a target cell, to execute an action. Like what a student team researched for this year's synthetic biology iGEM competition..

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The talk

  1. A molecular computer to classify cells 2018-01-26 · 6 min · CERN's player

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Institution
CERN
Department
IT Lightning Talks (ITLT)
Speaker
Konstantinos Samaras-Tsakiris
Year
2018
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Computer science
Source
CERN
Licence
CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
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