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WE ARE CYBER. "The idea that you're basically a DNA-driven software device is not the view that people necessarily have of themselves. But every cell on this planet works that way in a biological-to-mechanical kind of fashion. We produce life by writing new software." (J Craig Venter). " " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

EMAIL A DISEASE? . "Obviously the downside is you could instead of giving your partner a genetic disease or an infection, you can e-mail it. So people could use this to do harm, as we see with computer viruses all the time. You would, of course, want good computer and biological virus protection on your DNA decoder." (J Craig Venter)." " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

FAST VACCINE. Most egg-hatched vaccines hit the market too late, but now SynBio is changing that. "We can now make a new flu vaccine in less than twelve hours using synthetic DNA. Instead of having to deal with a major pandemic where you can't travel out of your home or your city, imagine that you had a little box next to your computer, and you got an e-mail, and that gave you a chance to actually make a vaccine instantly, sort of like 3D printers." (J Craig Venter)" " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

85,000 new chemical registered since WWII, and only 200 tested. No wonder we are full of sickness. http://lnkd.in/AUdeiZ View in LinkedIn

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?TELEPORTING!! "you're going to be able to get biology coming out of your computer or your telephone wire." Venter's vision is uber-powerful. To email a code and then convert it back to life! The Starship Enterprise and Scotty are about to enter our living rooms. Imagine the possibilities! " " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k. 9-1 View in LinkedIn

BEAM ME UP! "But imagine if you could e-mail yourself to Mars or some distant planet. We can actually do that now, because with our synthetic cell, we start with the digital code in the computer, and there's no difference between digital code and genetic code. Because digital code can move as an electromagnetic wave, basically close to the speed of light, we can now move biology at the speed of light. This has some practical applications." (JCV)" " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

J CRAIG VENTER. "Digital code, as you know, is a binary code, and ones and zeroes, and your genetic code is literally four-base code with ACGs and Ts. We can now readily convert in between the two, and we can define life at its most basic level. Things that were a mystery fifty, sixty, seventy years ago, we now understand completely."" " http://lnkd.in/CgynFP View in LinkedIn

J. CRAIG VENTER: "in the next 11 years we're going to add a billion people to the planet...(in) 11 years, and 12 years after that we're going to add another billion people. Last October we just passed the 7 billion mark, and that took 12 years to happen from 6 billion. In the 1800s it took well over 100 years to go from 1 to 2 billion people. We're in a unique time in history where there are more people alive than have ever existed in human history, and we keep expanding tremendously, and exhausting the resources of the planet."" " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

KICKSTARTER TO FUND SYNBIO glowing plants. Crowdfunding funds biotech! Although there was a regrettable backlash later. "Funds raised will be used to print the DNA sequences we have designed using Genome Compiler and to transform the plants by inserting these sequences into the plant and then growing the resultant plant in the lab."" " http://lnkd.in/HJ9Ez9. View in LinkedIn

TOOTH STEM CELLS. At last! " " http://lnkd.in/Tk-SJT View in LinkedIn