An autonomous molecular computer for logical control of gene expression

Yaakov Benenson1,2, Binyamin Gil 2 ,Uri Ben-Dor1 ,Rivka Adar2 & Ehud Shapiro1,2
1Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and
2Department of Biological Chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Science,Rehovot 76100 Israel

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