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The future of Biological Computing

  • 37articles
  • 2016first covered
  • 25 Apr 2026latest update
  • 12linked technologies

What is Biological Computing?

What is Biological Computing doing to bring the future to life?

Bringing the future to life

How Biological Computing is shaping what comes next

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Biological Computing goes mainstream around 2048

Biological Computing sits in the Compute sector of the 311 Emerging Technology Starburst, which tracks 1,073 technologies to 2075. The timeline shows when it and the technologies most often reported alongside it reach the mainstream.

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All 37 articles on Biological Computing

  1. This super intelligent biological AI sleeps, develops a personality and eventually diesAI and intelligence
  2. Living cellular computers move computing beyond SiliconComputing
  3. This startup is scaling brain cell powered biological computers to challenge Nvidia in AIComputing
  4. Living brain Bio-Computers are now being trained on DopamineComputing
  5. ARIA researchers attempt to cut AI computing costs by a thousandComputing
  6. Nanoscale computer accurately controls the behaviour of cells for the first timeComputing
  7. A ball of brain cells on a chip just learned maths and speech recognitionAI and intelligence
  8. AI has designed new proteins that behave like biological transistorsComputing
  9. Electrogenetic breakthrough finds a way to control your genes via wearablesBiotech and enhanced humans
  10. IBM’s quantum computer turned up the noise to thrash a supercomputer in benchmark testsComputing
  11. Human mini-brains could make biological computers more powerful than silicon based AIComputing
  12. Mini brains grown from human neurons have learned how to play PongBiotech and enhanced humans
  13. Researchers turn plants into biological computers to grow better cropsComputing
  14. Ultra energy efficient molecular computer breaks records and blurs boundariesComputing
  15. In world first human brain cells in a dish learned to play Pong faster than AIAI and intelligence
  16. This sci-fi like E. coli biocomputer solved a classic maze problem with no errorsComputing
  17. Scientists built a perfectly replicating synthetic cellBiotech and enhanced humans
  18. Scientists turned the human body into a data network to advance cyber securitySecurity and privacy
  19. New research would allow cyborgs and human organs to join computer networksComputing
  20. Quadruple stranded DNA seen in human cells for the first timeBiotech and enhanced humans
  21. World first as scientists link biological and artificial neurons together in a networkBiotech and enhanced humans
  22. The Future of Artificial Intelligence | ReComm, Austria | Matthew Griffin | AI and Technology Keynote SpeakerArticles
  23. Stanford developed a gene editing tool that identifies and de-bugs faulty genesBiotech and enhanced humans
  24. Cellular recorders help treat cancer by capturing the story of cellsBiotech and enhanced humans
  25. Synthetic proteins with “unlimited potential” usher in new era of smart cell therapiesBiotech and enhanced humans
  26. Synthetic lifeforms closer to reality after AI creates world’s first synthetic genomeBiotech and enhanced humans
  27. Designer cells with two genetic codes give life on Earth a serious upgradeBiotech and enhanced humans
  28. Researchers gene hacked human cells and turned them into dual core computersComputing
  29. Researchers unveil the world’s first programable DNA computer prototypeComputing
  30. Scientists built an 8 base pair DNA double helix with potential to create new lifeformsBiotech and enhanced humans
  31. Scientists get funding to grow neural networks in petri dishesAI and intelligence
  32. Scientists created a DNA Neural Network and the world’s first “test tube AI”AI and intelligence
  33. Scientists have turned human cells into complex living computersComputing
  34. Scientists turned live bacteria into the world’s first biological computerComputing
  35. Scientists stored a movie inside a living bacteria, then replayed itComputing
  36. Injectable biological computers get closer with DNA logic gate breakthroughComputing
  37. Researchers have created a programming language for living cellsComputing

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How many articles has 311 Institute published about Biological Computing?

311 Institute has published 37 articles about Biological Computing since 2016, most recently on 25 April 2026.

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