Year: 2022

ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOMES. "Information stored electronically can be used to direct artificial synthesis of the corresponding DNA. Complex DNA syntheses are rapidly becoming faster, more accurate, and more efficient, such that whole chromosomes can be synthesized and manipulated." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

LIFE ENGINEERING. "Several technologies are combining to transform this research tool into a practical means of shaping the living world." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ARCHIVING ORGANISMS. "In the near future, significant and growing proportions of organismal DNA sequence will be captured digitally, and it will become commonplace to reconstruct genomes by chemical synthesis." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC GENOME. "The steps to RNA and onward to phenotype have been achieved with the construction and cellular transfer of the first chemically synthesized bacterial genome." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

FUTURE SHADOW. "De novo construction of larger, eukaryotic genomes will clearly come about within a few years, as this needs only technical advances in methods that already exist." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION. "Such technologies might become a significant mechanism for creation and manipulation of organisms, allowing directed and ‘artificial’ evolution." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

HUMAN-DIRECTED EVOLUTION. "Molecular technologies are now adding a further layer to this information flow. For the first time in 3.7 billion years, the Central Dogma has acquired an additional step, to include digital storage of biological information." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

WORLD AS DATA. "The growing efficiency of DNA sequencing and synthesis means that it will soon become practical to encode digital information as DNA sequence. This would provide advantages of long-term storage and the capacity for archiving far more information than is currently stored globally." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

A MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENT. "In this case, non-biological information would be archived in a biological repository. Consequently, humans are embarking on fundamental extensions to the flow of information circumscribed by the Central Dogma. This is a major development in the course of evolutionary history." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ANTHROPOCENE ERA. "It has been proposed that the current geological epoch should be christened the Anthropocene, distinguished from the Holocene because human-driven alterations to biogeochemistry are large enough to leave clear signals in the geological record." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn