THE BOSTON BLOCKCHAIN BEAT EP.17 | Blockchain In Human DNA?!

[Music] hello everyone my name is Lauren Wixom and welcome to another episode of the Boston blockchain beat where we share news of all things blockchain to the Boston community and Beyond this episode was brought to you by cubic Labs an incubator from Metro Boston's blockchain startup companies now let's get with today's news looks like here in the near future it may be possible to run entire computer networks inside of living cells thanks to a recent breakthrough in molecular Computing from scientists in the US a team of scientists at North Carolina State University and John's Hopkins University have built a functional DNA computer as coin Telegraph previously reported DNA storage has been around for a while but this may be the world's first functional molecular computer capable of conducting both storage and compute functions via DNA instead of using electricity so far this DNA based computer has solved sodoku and chess problems demonstrating its potential most molecular computers are developed using synthesized DNA so for the time being it's unlikely we'll see any practical applications for their insertion into living organisms keywords for the time being with future development and expansion it may even be possible to network DNA based computers inside of a single organism so what does this mean for blockchain the basic idea behind a blockchain inside a human would be similar to how blockchain networks function in the classical Computing World different cells in a person's body would work as validation nodes for whatever transactions occurred on the cellular blockchain think of it as using cellular Integrity to verify and validate functions within a blockchain network this may be far future Tech that's currently outside of Humanity's grasp but the Breakthrough research published appears to have at least brought it within the realm of possibility pretty cool if you ask me well that's all the news I have time for today folks again my name is Lauren Wixom and really quick I wanted to mention that Boston blockchain week is finally here guys it is next week so if you haven't already be sure to register at Boston blockchain week.com I hope to see all of you there the event is going to be full of awesome networking and panels and just diving deep into the whole blockchain web 3 Industry it's going to be a lot of fun you definitely don't want to miss it it's going to be held in Kilroy Square in Quincy Massachusetts September 11th through the 13th I hope you guys enjoyed this week's episode of the Boston blockchain beat and I can't wait to see you guys in the next one [Music]