Computers of the future could be built using the tiny proteins that hold our cells together

Future computers could be built smaller than ever before using the tiny biological skeletons that hold our cells together. That's according to one team of scientists, who have devised a way to make computer chips using cytoskeletons - protein scaffolds that give cells their shape. They claim that the silicon chips that brought computers to the masses in the 1980s are soon to be a thing of the past. Cytoskeletons are tiny scaffolds made of protein that give cells their shape and help them move. Pictured is a microscopic image of a cell and its cytoskeleton.