While strands of DNA may be able to pick fights with other strands, one thing that they can't do yet is play computer games -- that is, until now. In what appears to be an early proof-of-concept for ...

Last year, Professor Alex Schiller of Friedrich Schiller University and two of his students, Martin Elstner and Jörg Axthelm, announced that they had created a sugar-based molecular computer.

Tic-tac-toe (or “Noughts and Crosses”) is a game simple enough to implement in any computer system: indeed it’s often used in beginner’s programming courses. A more challenging project, and arguably ...

Qian Lab: World's Smallest Tic-Tac-Toe Board Built from DNA Wondering which penny-pinching family member will hand out the smallest gifts this holidays? It would be hard to beat the one California ...