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PROGRAMMING LIFE. "In five years time, we will be programming bacterial cells in the computer and compiling and storing its program into these new cells so they can readily execute them.” https://lnkd.in/dSKGWDR View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC BUGS. "All the key barriers to the artificial synthesis of viruses and bacteria have been overcome. Einstein's revolutionary theories helped unravel the secrets of the cosmos. They also led to the atom bomb." http://www.cfr.org/united-states/biologys-brave-new-world/p31894 View in LinkedIn

REWRITING LIFE. "But the implications of being able to engineer cells go deeper, according to Enriquez. “This isn’t just about economic growth, this is also about where we are going as a human species,” he said. Humans will no longer merely adapt to or adopt the environment, but “begin to understand how life is written, how life is coded, how life is copied, and how you can rewrite life.” http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/26/making-living-matter-programmable/ View in LinkedIn

MANIPULATION OF LIFE. "Juan Enriquez, a self-described “curiosity expert” and co-founder of the company Synthetic Genomics, compared the digital revolution spawned by thinking of information as a string of ones and zeros to the coming synthetic biology revolution, premised on thinking about life as a mix of interchangeable parts – genes and gene networks – that can be learned and manipulated like any language." http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/26/making-living-matter-programmable/ View in LinkedIn

THE FUTURE IS PROGRAMMABLE CELLS. "Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at “Programming Life: the revolutionary potential of synthetic biology.” https://lnkd.in/dTQVWrg View in LinkedIn

REDEFINING NATURE. "The potential of text, and of code that is currently built of text, is expanding in this era of the physical and the biological, where nature itself is being rethought and redefined." https://lnkd.in/dCVHq5S View in LinkedIn

GENES FROM LIVE VACCINES. "Importantly, the pathogenic consequences of recombination need to be carefully considered whenever multivalent live-attenuated vaccines are used. For example, recombination of poliovirus vaccine strains leads to the frequent recovery of recombinant pathogenic poliovirus; similarly, this is also observed for infectious bronchitis virus." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001580 View in LinkedIn

MEMORY FITNESS ADVANTAGE. "This allows a viral population to respond more effectively to selective constraints that had already been experienced by the same virus lineage." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001580 View in LinkedIn

HOST ECOSYSTEM. "It is thus possible to extend the concept of quasispecies to include viral strains that co-circulate and that, by coinfecting cells in the infected individuals, can recombine increasing the sequence space that the virus can explore in search for evolutionary innovation." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001580 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR MEMORY. "There are additional observations that support the view that mutant spectra are true actors of evolutionary outcomes. Viral quasispecies can be endowed with a molecular memory consisting of minority genomes present at higher than basal frequency levels because the genomes had been dominant in a prior phase of evolution of the same lineage." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001580 View in LinkedIn