Toward In Vivo Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Using DNA

We propose a technique to diagnose and treat individual cells in the human body. A virus-like system delivers a copy of a diagnosis and treatment DNA complex to each cell. The complex determines whether the cell has a specific disease based on the presence or absence of indicator mRNA molecules and, if the diagnosis is positive, releases a proper drug for treatment. As a tool for the diagnosis and treatment system, we develop a DNA implementation of an arbitrary finite state machine.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: BIOCOMP
• Authors: Yuriy Brun, Manoj Gopalkrishnan
• Keywords: Arbitrary Finite State, BIOCOMP 2006, BIOCOMP 2007, Indicator MRNA Molecules, Treatment Dna Complex