'Chemistry = Electronics' At Atomic Level?
It can be a simple 'analog thought' of something which we are trying to make more digital. However, it is a daily routine for Rahul Sarpeshkar. In a deeply thought about experiment scientists are MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have successfully modeled the analog biological processes in terms of digital electronics phenomenon.
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MIT Scientists have modeled electronic behavior of biological cells | Image Credit: Christine Daniloff
While explaining the physical phenomenon, we can say that any process in nature is a continuous process. While the degree of quickness with which the end states of that process is achieved matters.  If the end states are reached pretty early, we miss the stages in between and term it as a digital process. However those in between stages have always been there although unnoticed. The researchers from MIT are in other words trying to discover the relation among electronics and Chemistry both of which primarily concerns with the motion of electrons and atoms.
Rahul Sarpeshkar, Lorenzo Turicchia,  Ramiz Daniel and graduate student Sung Sik Woo all of RLE are concentrating the wide range of conductivity exhibited by a transistor in between the ON and OFF states. Comparing it with a biological cell, the scientists have tried varying the concentration of different proteins of a cell. The researchers are trying to study the effect of these changed concentrations and compare them with electronics. The team is of the belief that if we take a simple example of formation of Insulin, its percentage varies right from being NIL to FULL. It thus has a deep relation crude logic of '0' and '1'. #-Link-Snipped-# in this regard at Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference in San Diego, this November.
The study has a wide range of aspects. For example, a thorough knowledge of genetic structure and its interaction with other enzymes can be studied at possibly low costs and efforts. Moreover, the study will pave way for further research in genetic engineering. A breakthrough in this domain will definitely prove to be beneficial to the genetic engineers and biologists.
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MIT Scientists have modeled electronic behavior of biological cells | Image Credit: Christine Daniloff
While explaining the physical phenomenon, we can say that any process in nature is a continuous process. While the degree of quickness with which the end states of that process is achieved matters.  If the end states are reached pretty early, we miss the stages in between and term it as a digital process. However those in between stages have always been there although unnoticed. The researchers from MIT are in other words trying to discover the relation among electronics and Chemistry both of which primarily concerns with the motion of electrons and atoms.
Rahul Sarpeshkar, Lorenzo Turicchia,  Ramiz Daniel and graduate student Sung Sik Woo all of RLE are concentrating the wide range of conductivity exhibited by a transistor in between the ON and OFF states. Comparing it with a biological cell, the scientists have tried varying the concentration of different proteins of a cell. The researchers are trying to study the effect of these changed concentrations and compare them with electronics. The team is of the belief that if we take a simple example of formation of Insulin, its percentage varies right from being NIL to FULL. It thus has a deep relation crude logic of '0' and '1'. #-Link-Snipped-# in this regard at Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference in San Diego, this November.
The study has a wide range of aspects. For example, a thorough knowledge of genetic structure and its interaction with other enzymes can be studied at possibly low costs and efforts. Moreover, the study will pave way for further research in genetic engineering. A breakthrough in this domain will definitely prove to be beneficial to the genetic engineers and biologists.
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