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- noun biology, computing Any of several proposed systems using
DNA orproteins to performdata processing (insynthetic biology )
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Muthr added, Though I am a manufactured hybrid biocomputer, and contain what some may consider ‘living organs,’ I use no metabolic processes to gain energy.
The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010
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Using the same definition, it is Purposeful Intelligence in a box, a vast biocomputer.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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A glittering biocomputer smaller than your fist, studded with tiny vernier thrusters, suspended on a web of particle collectors stretching ten meters across, drifting through the void around a fading star.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Using the same definition, it is Purposeful Intelligence in a box, a vast biocomputer.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Using the same definition, it is Purposeful Intelligence in a box, a vast biocomputer.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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This is a very intriguing story, although not too detailed as to precisely how the biocomputer automatas would work--makes me wonder how they might be used to repair or enhance neurons and their synaptic connections in the brain for elevated cogitation, memory, math or other skills and, penultimately, higher intelligence, if at all possible.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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~ Brain Fitness: How to Improve Your Thinking Ability -- One of the greatest resources you have is the biocomputer between your ears: your mind.
Speedlinking 11/21/07 William Harryman 2007
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What if a biocomputer could be protein programmed to modify components of DNA in egg or sperm cells, so that the changes could be passed down to one's offspring?
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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Any volunteers for the first "mind upgrade" using early prototype biocomputer enhancements?
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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It's not quite Fantastic Voyage, but researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have demonstrated an injectable DNA-based biocomputer that can diagnose and treat certain kinds of cancer.
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