Tim wrote:

Sounds like the same DNA computing that Adleman was doing several years ago.

As I recall, Adleman's DNA actually chugged away in a test tube computing Hamiltonian Paths. I look forward to news of Shapiro's DNA doing something similarly useful.

A good thing the Department of Hype was brought in to co-author the scientific press releases.

My favorite Weizmann Institute press release was the one about their amazing discovery that electrons in a double slit experiment do not produce an interference pattern when you observe which slit they go through. (E. Buks et al., Nature, 26 Feb. 1998.) Vulis lampooned this in a very funny spoof, in which the "Weizmann Institute" announced the "amazing result" of a similar experiment with photons. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"