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Scientists in Switzerland have managed to form a “feedback loop” between a computer and a common yeast, precisely controlling the switching on and off of specific genes. This could herald the ability to control biological processes, such as creating biofuel from microbes, Jason Palmer of BBC News reports. “The neat thing about this is that there are many people who have tried to do things like this by, for example, coding in the cell itself a synthetic circuit, putting genes and...