Early research focused on adapting existing hardware to emulate the pattern recognition capabilities of living organisms.
It is envisaged that in vitro and in vivo DNA computing research are preliminary steps that may ultimately lead to making DNA computing a viable complementary tool for computation and provide more insight into the computational capabilities of living organisms.
The proposed solution is based on two conjectures on the way the cognitive capabilities of living beings have evolved, and purposely ignores the human-level skills required for solving complex puzzles.
It is shown that on virtually every metric, the 1-μm nanomorphic cell is overmatched when compared with the information-processing capability of living cells, which excels in very low power consumption and very high information throughput.
The hypersaline ciliate F. salina was abundant in the lake, with a summer peak (at a salinity 33.5 g L−1) corresponding to the species's euryplasty (Pandey and Yeragib 2004) and extremophilia as revealed by the physiologic capability of living in high salinity (Elloumi et al. 2006) and its capacity of cyst formation under unfavorable conditions (De Winter and Persoone 1975).
The mechanisms underlying the capability of living cells to receive and act in response to mechanical inputs emerged early during evolution.
Cell viability of the scFv 43M2-transduced cells was investigated by the EZ4U assay, based on the capability of living cells to reduce uncolored tetrazolium salts into intensely colored formazan derivatives, assessable by an OD450 absorption reading.
In addition to its capability of living under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions and in the intestines of human, a variety of freshwater fish and frogs, it can also survive and replicate as a free living bacterium in water obtained from drinking water reservoirs [ 6- 10].
In a sense, all preceding chapters have been pointing toward a comparison between the information-processing capabilities of the living cell with those of the nanomorphic cell, which is composed of ultimately scaled electronic components, and such a comparison is undertaken in this chapter.
This is contrasted with the greater immune tolerant capabilities of individuals still living in regions with lifestyles more representative of our evolutionary history.
