Article on DNA Computers Inspiration for Biotech Novel.

Here is the beginning of the article that inspired me to write my recently released biotech thriller novel, “The True Virus".

Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
February 24, 2003
Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.
A year ago, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, unveiled a programmable molecular computing machine composed of enzymes and DNA molecules instead of silicon microchips. Now the team has gone one step further. In the new device, the single DNA molecule that provides the computer with the input data also provides all the necessary fuel.