for mere mortals

(albeit ones who know a bit of differential calculus)

DISCLAIMER: This is a school project. I would like to think that the CalTech course I've drawn from has made me somewhat knowledgeable on this topic, but please do not use this for medical advice, etc., etc. If you happen to know what you are doing, and you find a mistake on this website, please tell me about it. With that said:

Biological circuit design is the science of abstracting natural biological processes by defining them as you would any synthetic circuit. It also allows us to create our own circuits out of natural components. As CalTech's open-source Biocircuits course states:

Indeed, the marvelous progression of electronic circuit capabilities [...] could well describe biological circuits decades from now. Like electronics, we may will soon be able to program cellular “miracle devices” to create “little gadgets” that address serious environmental and medical applications.

That CalTech course will be the main source for this presentation. All diagrams are from it.

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