Detection of multiple disease indicators by an autonomous biomolecular computer.

Gil, Binyamin; Kahan-Hanum, Maya; Skirtenko, Natalia; Adar, Rivka; Shapiro, Ehud · Nano Lett · 2011

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The promise of biomolecular computers is their ability to interact with naturally occurring biomolecules, enabling in the future the development of context-dependent programmable drugs. Here we show a context-sensing mechanism of a biomolecular automaton that can simultaneously sense different types of molecules, allowing future integration of biomedical knowledge on a broad range of molecular disease symptoms in the decision of a biomolecular computer to release a drug molecule.

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