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Shrinking machines, cellular computers

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Scientists are using DNA and RNA to build the world's tiniest robots and computing devices.

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 5
        May 2018
        104 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3210350
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