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...wolf down chips at summertime picnics, it's nice to know that Pentagon futurists are busy working on a whole other kind of chip for hungry soldiers. Army scientists want to develop a "grocery store on a chip" for use during battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New New Thing | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

Scientists at the Pentagon's COMBAT FEEDING PROGRAM in Natick, Mass., say the chip could also carry "nutraceuticals." Those are pharmaceutically enhanced foods to better performance, improve autoimmune responses or cut combat-related stress. Now, if only they could make them in sour-cream-and-onion flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New New Thing | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...daunting task. A single enzyme in a liver cell may be controlled by as many as 14 different regulatory processes. Multiply that by thousands of interconnected chemical reactions operating simultaneously in billions of cells, and you've got one incredibly complex system. But Arkin knows that computer-chip designers manage similar levels of complexity. "Good engineers in the 1960s could probably understand all the circuitry that people had built," Arkin says. "But when integrated circuits were developed, that became impossible." There were just too many pieces to put together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Hacking the Cell's Circuitry | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...evaluation), which was developed at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1970s. SPICE allowed engineers to analyze their electronic circuits and predict, more or less accurately, how they would work before they were built. There would always be bugs to iron out, but at least the program pointed chip designers in the right direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Hacking the Cell's Circuitry | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

Arkin is developing a similar program he calls bio/SPICE that he hopes will do for the cell what SPICE did for the chip. His first targets are simple bacteria. "They're still complicated enough that we get depressed," Arkin admits with a laugh. But he has already had some success grouping reactions together by the kinds of jobs they do. And, sure enough, some of them bear a remarkable resemblance to the gates and switches of an electronic circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Hacking the Cell's Circuitry | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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