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INNOVATION is intimately linked to economic growth. "A large proportion of US economic growth in the 20th century was derived from technological and related innovation." https://lnkd.in/dEAvzMk View in LinkedIn

SHIFTING CLOUD. "Quasispecies theory has encouraged viewing and examining viruses as complex mutant spectra, and not merely as simple genetic entities that can be described with a defined nucleotide sequence, as believed only a few decades ago." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001580 View in LinkedIn

HISTORY IN REPETITION. "Before the industrial revolution most items were made by hand, which meant that they were slower to manufacture, more expensive to produce and limited in number. We are at a similar juncture in synthetic biology, having to test and build each part from scratch, which is a long and slow process." https://lnkd.in/dQXsqu8 View in LinkedIn

BIOMOLECULES IN SILICON. "Integration of molecular components with silicon based electronics. This means that eventually electronic computation may be performed with molecular components integrated in CMOS electronics." https://lnkd.in/dChA4Uc View in LinkedIn

NO LONGER PLASTICS. "Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells." Allusion to Mrs Robinson's husband's advice to Ben... https://lnkd.in/d4dA-zH View in LinkedIn

"BIOLOGY IS THE NEXT IT INDUSTRY. "DNA is the software that makes the hardware. Life is becoming programmable, one of the most powerful shifts that the world has ever seen." (Andrew Hessel). https://lnkd.in/dfprhfp View in LinkedIn

DNA JOIN AND FORK CIRCUIT ANIMATION, another provocative clip. https://lnkd.in/dZuK7Zn View in LinkedIn

DNA STRAND DISPLACEMENT ANIMATION. It is hard to watch this brilliant animation and not think of intelligent molecules. Prions are just proteins that can replicate and evolve. Jumping genes are just strands of genetic code that have gained some lifestyle autonomy from the cell. Not just an idle thought. Life had to transition from the inanimate somewhere in the universe. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=228977 View in LinkedIn

DNA JOIN CIRCUIT. Video of the process. https://lnkd.in/dQrjeji View in LinkedIn

THE MASSIVE INVENTIVENESS of natural evolution is truly a spectacle to behold, from the endless quirkiness of physical morphology to the amazing creativity of genetics. Mobile genetic elements, viruses, bacteria and horizontal gene transfer have reinvented themselves millions of times over by every method unimaginable. Humans, but not Nature, are limited by their own imaginations. View in LinkedIn