Year: 2022

SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY TRUMPED BY SYNBIO. "we synthetic chemists like to think we’re special because we have the ability to make new compounds never seen in Nature, but with an increasing understanding of enzymes and the genes that encode for them, organisms can now be coaxed into producing compounds that have never been seen before."" " http://lnkd.in/6CmHgk. View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO MAP shows research and commercial locations worldwide. "The U.S. is considered the world leader in this (Synbio) emerging field of science. Some estimate that by 2015, a fifth of the chemical industry (worth $1.8 trillion) could be dependent on synthetic biology."" " http://lnkd.in/FuTGqY View in LinkedIn

RATE OF CHANGE OF GENOMICS is dwarfing that of computing. George Church's new book Regenesis: "As the book documents, we’re in the middle of an exponential increase in genomics capabilities that dwarfs even the pace of change in the computer industry. In such a rapidly changing field if you can imagine a plausible technical approach to a problem, no matter how difficult or cumbersome it may be, then soon it’s likely to become easy."" " http://lnkd.in/BCv3aC View in LinkedIn

REGENESIS by George Church. "The possibilities are mind-blowing — breeding organisms immune to all viruses, recreating extinct species, creating humans immune to cancer. We’re entering an age where the limits to our capabilities to re-make the world around us are limited only by our imaginations and our good judgement. Regenesis... proposing mechanisms to create synthetic organisms that are incapable of interacting with natural ones."" " http://lnkd.in/BCv3aC. View in LinkedIn

HOMO EVOLUTIS (.Authors: Steve Gullans and Juan Enriquez). "Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy, Enriquez says that humanity is on the verge of becoming a new and utterly unique species, which he dubs Homo Evolutis. What makes this species so unique is that it "takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of the species." Calling it the "ultimate reboot," he points to the conflux of DNA manipulation and therapy, tissue generation, and robotics as making this great leap possible."" " http://lnkd.in/NN569F View in LinkedIn

ENRIQUEZ on Homo Evolutis. “We will likely see glimpses of this long-lived, partly mechanical, partly regrown creature that continues to rapidly drive its own evolution. As the branches of the tree of life, and of hominids, continue to grow and spread, many of our grandchildren will likely engineer themselves into what we would consider a new species, one with extraordinary capabilities, a homo evolutis."" " http://lnkd.in/ndKDiV View in LinkedIn

ACCELERATING HUMAN EVOLUTION? (Fogel). “Over the past 300 years, humans have increased their average body size by over 50 percent, average longevity by more than 100 percent, and greatly improved the robustness and capacity of vital organ systems. From an evolutionary perspective, 300 years is an eyeblink. A sneeze. Not nearly enough time for these sorts of radical improvements."" " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn

FOGEL's TECHNO-PHYSIO EVOLUTION, explains the faster rate of human evolution in the past 300 years in his book The Changing Body (2011). “In the past hundred years, humans have gained an unprecedented degree of control over their environment, a degree of control so great that it sets them apart not only from all other species, but from all previous generations of Homo sapiens.”" " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn

ACCELERATING LONGEVITY. "Humans are a 200,000-year-old species. When we first emerged our life span was 20 years. By the turn of the 20th century it had become 44 years. We advanced by 24 years over the course of 200,000 years. But today, it’s 80 years. These simple improvements doubled our longevity in a century.” " " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn

GENETIC SELF-DETERMINATION." "“Exponentially growing technology changes the evolutionary discussion,” says Andrew Hessel, co-chair of bioinformatics and biotechnology at Singularity University. “If you follow the patterns out, you very quickly see that this is the century we take control over our genome."" " http://lnkd.in/_ZBmM6 View in LinkedIn