Are biocomputer gel packs from Star Trek becoming real?

[wolram]

Used in star trek as the cores for computers the gel bags are living cells, so is this a start for them to become a reality?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160721151225.htm

 

[Fervent Freyja]

I haven't watched Star Trek, but what I took from the article is that advances in tracking methods will allow further study of the specific organization of cellular processes that lead to disease.