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Mixed-Reality CellBidirectinal coupling between real and virtual bio-oscillators

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Background

As we know, computer technology have created great revolution in humans’ lives from 20th century. And now, we enter into 21th century, a century of life science. The developments of computer science and life science both impact profoundly our world and society. And they also develop production of society. We can’t help imagining what will happen if these two combine. We can’t predict what will happen. However, we believe that the combination has great potential, even creates the next revolution.

Review the development history of computer science and life science development, we can find that these two begin combining gradually. Especially in recent years, with the increasing ability of computer simulation, many scientific research can be carried out by means of computer simulation in the virtual world. And this technology has a lot of applications in life science research. For example, man-machine interaction, artificial intelligence and visual simulation environment of medicine research. It is not exaggerated to claim that we have entered into a mix-reality era. So we are thinking why not create a life form half in the reality, half in the virtual world. The real part and virtual part regulate each other constantly eventually mix a mix-reality system.

A researcher ever explored the concept of mix-reality [V Gintautas, et al. Physics, 2013]. He set a simple pendulum in the reality, and designed a simulative programs in the computer. These two simple pendulums coupled in the same conditions limited in a numerical range. On the other hand, in the realm of biology, researchers constructed two genetic oscillator circuits in bacterium. These two genetic oscillator circuits coupled based on queuing theory [Arthur P, et al. Nature, 2014]. We were sparked inspiration by these research achievements. We want to achieve the couple between organisms and computers to create a new united from. We believe such a life form possesses logic of computers and adaption of organisms will make a difference in the future.

Reference

1. V Gintautas, A Hubler et al. Mixed Reality States in a Bidirectionally Coupled Interreality System.[J]. Phys. Rev. E 75, 057201 (2007)

2. Arthur P, Jangir S, Howard L, et al. Rapid and tunable post-translational coupling of genetic circuits. [J]. Nature, 2014, 508(7496):387-391.

3. Hubler A, Gintautas V. Experimental evidence for mixed reality states [J]. Complexity, 2011, 13(6):7–10.

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