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Why Bio + Computing Is the Next Computing Revolution

Silicon is hitting limits. Biology is becoming programmable infrastructure.

By Kimberley Vanessa Cheung · 12 min read · Subscribe to read full story

Main points — free preview

  • Silicon scaling is slowing — Nature and materials researchers describe a shift from 'More-Moore' miniaturization toward new architectures and embedded intelligence.
  • AlphaFold demonstrated that machine learning can solve a decades-long structural biology bottleneck, then expanded from proteins to broader biomolecular interaction prediction.
  • Biology is simultaneously becoming programmable (synthetic circuits in cells) and measurable at unprecedented scale (NIH All of Us genomics + health records).

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