Hacking Human Cells

From National Geographic News:

A newly developed bio-computer allows scientists to "program" molecules to carry out "commands" inside cells.

Such devices could one day allow humans to manipulate biological systems directly, said the California Institute of Technology's Christina Smolke, who co-authored the study, which will be published tomorrow in the journal Science.

Bio-computers might eventually serve as brains for producing biofuels from cells, for example, or to control "smart drugs" that medicate only under certain conditions.

Lovely. Soon we'll have both viruses AND computer viruses in our cels. Let's just hope this bio computer doesn't run Vista.