Synthetic life unveiled

This is just a must see.
Scientists have designed a DNA sequence in a computer and managed to create real, self replicating cell, with it’s own email address encoded in the DNA :-)

http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life.html

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2 Responses to Synthetic life unveiled

  1. What a coincidence. I just finished reading “Deus Ex Machina”, a sci-fi book about artificial intelligence, and about a biocompiler that can manufacture and manipulate DNA-structures (of course it goes horribly wrong). Science is catching up with science fiction. :-)

  2. I just looked up information about the book I mentioned, and the English title is “The Deus Machine”, by Pierre Ouellette.

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