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TRANSPOSON REVIEW (jumping genes, "junk DNA"). " ""The ability of transposons to increase genetic diversity, together with the ability of the genome to inhibit most TE activity, results in a balance that makes transposable elements an important part of evolution and gene regulation in all organisms that carry these sequences."" " http://lnkd.in/GEpmJN View in LinkedIn

CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM. " In the last 30 to 40 years, we’ve taken almost one-third of humanity out of poverty. We’ve educated almost one-third of humanity. We generate an excess of calories. We’re starting to deal with some of the major pollution issues in big cities. We’ve generated large economies in a series of places". (Juan Rodriquez). " " http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-juan-enriquez-futurist-on-the-intersection-of-science-business-and-society/10185 View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO AND GOOGLE. "One of Google's chief scientists, Richard DeVaul, revealed via his Google+ page that an invite-only "Solve for X" conference over the weekend had discussed ways of "transforming education" and creating "5x improvements in agriculture through better decision support, synthetic biology, and carbon-negative biofuels."" " http://lnkd.in/-4Rywv. View in LinkedIn

SPACE COLONIES. "this will allow us to conceive of human lifespan in such a way that we’ll be able to colonize not only other parts of the solar system, but maybe even conceive of lifespans ... long enough to go extra-solar. The only ... way in which we could leave the solar system is fundamentally altering this equation of sex-to-birth equals 10 months. We’re going to get glimpses of how to do that by the time our great-grandchildren are around". (Juan Rodriquez). " " http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-juan-enriquez-futurist-on-the-intersection-of-science-business-and-society/10185 View in LinkedIn

J CRAIG VENTER lecture worth a careful read. " "" " 'What Is Life: A 21st Century Perspective' by J. Craig Venter on the 70th Anniversary of Schrödinger's Lecture at Trinity College [7.12.12] http://lnkd.in/i7R2dG View in LinkedIn

NEW HOMINIDS. "In the long-term, we’re going to fundamentally alter the human species. That’s happened some 30 times before, but we’re going to do it much faster. We’re going to have many variants of humans as opposed to a single variant. We’re going to identify genes that are positive and negative". (Juan Rodriquez)." " http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-juan-enriquez-futurist-on-the-intersection-of-science-business-and-society/10185 View in LinkedIn

LIFE TELEPORTER. "This Digital Biological Converter is not a myth, the United States government emails my Institute a new pandemic viral sequence, and we have 12 hours to try and make the new vaccine, get it to Novartis to get ready to scale up.. But you're going to see this developing very rapidly where, in the same way the telephone interpreted signals coming through a wire, instead of hearing sound, you're going to be able to get biology coming out of your computer or your telephone wire." (J Craig Venter)." " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn

THE BIO-KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY. "In the medium-term, you’re going to have an enormous life sciences-driven economy in the same way you now have an enormous digital economy... Forty-two percent of DuPont’s earnings and 14 percent of General Electric’s earnings come out of life sciences and health care. Entire nations’ economies will be significantly dependent on things like life sciences". (Juan Enriquez). " " http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-juan-enriquez-futurist-on-the-intersection-of-science-business-and-society/10185 View in LinkedIn

COPERNICAN REVOLUTION. "But DNA is not the engine of life, it's the software of life; the proteins are the engines, they're driven directly by that code in a very understandable, predictable fashion now. This has implications in many different areas." (J Craig Venter). " " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k. View in LinkedIn

COLONIZING PLANETS by email? "Depending on how close moon and Mars are to each other, it takes between four minutes and twenty-one minutes for an electromagnetic wave, for light, to go from Earth to Mars. But imagine you're on a colony on Mars, and you want a new cell that produces food, or fuel, or some medicine, or a vaccine, you can just e-mail that and convert it back into biology." (J Craig Venter). " " http://lnkd.in/sdXQ9k View in LinkedIn