All-optical transistor for classical and quantum computers

An optical switch that can be turned on by a single photon could point toward new designs for both classical and quantum computers. In the latest issue of the journal Science, researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics — together with colleagues at Harvard University and the Vienna University of Technology — describe the experimental …

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Synthetic Biologists have for the first time synthesized eColi ribosomes

Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University, working with partners at Harvard Medical School, have for the first time synthesized ribosomes — cell structures responsible for generating all proteins and enzymes in our bodies — from scratch in a test tube. Customized ribosomes could lead to new antibiotics and new proteins. Others have previously tried to …

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