Stanford Uni evokes BIL gates to control your cells


Dubbed the “transcriptor”, the new transistors are a key component behind amplifying genetic logic.


Drew Endy, assistant professor of bioengineering and the paper’s senior author said that biological computers can be used to study and reprogram living systems, monitor environments and improve cellular therapeutics.



They can now build logic gates that can derive true-false answers to virtually any biochemical question that might be posed within a cell. These are dubbed “Boolean Integrase Logic,” or “BIL gates” (no, really).





It is also possible to connect BIL gates with the team’s biological internet, and it is possible to communicate genetic information from cell to cell to orchestrate the behaviour of a group of cells.

Then there will come the day when your cells are hacked and you are mutated into something less natural.