In Russia, work is underway to create biocomputers and computers using living neurons

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In Russia, work is underway to create biocomputers with memory based on DNA molecules and various proteins and computers based on living neurons.

The mass appearance of such computers is a fairly distant prospect.

In the coming decades, the world will not be able to abandon traditional transistor-based computers.

MOSCOW, September 27 - RIA Novosti. Work on the creation of biocomputers with memory based on DNA molecules and various proteins and computers based on living neurons is being carried out in Russia, the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a scientist in the field of micro- and nanoelectronics, Gennady Krasnikov, told RIA Novosti.

“Of course, work is underway in several directions. For example, the creation of memory based on DNA molecules, various proteins, an important attribute of any computer technology. Computers are being created based on living neurons,” the academician said.

According to him, the mass appearance of such computers is a fairly distant prospect. “And we also need to realize what advantages there will be,” explained the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In the coming decades, the world will not be able to abandon traditional computers, Krasnikov is sure.

“I don’t think that in the near future, in a few decades, transistors will become a thing of the past. This is what all computing technology is based on - the transistor effect,” the scientist recalled.