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A team of University of Washington synthetic biology researchers have demonstrated a new method for digital information processing in living cells, analogous to the logic gates used in electric circuits. Using this method, cells could potentially be reprogrammed to undergo new developmental pathways to regrow organs or to develop entirely new ones.
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