# A molecular computer to classify cells

- Institution: CERN
- Department: IT Lightning Talks (ITLT)
- Speaker: Konstantinos Samaras-Tsakiris
- Year: 2018
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3004251)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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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## Lectures

1. [A molecular computer to classify cells](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3004251/120d8416b383), 6 min (CERN's player)