Cells as living calculators
Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots.
Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots.
Analog — rather than digital — circuits could enable models of biological systems that are more efficient, more accurate and easier to build.
A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.