Month: September 2022

THE CREATION OF LIFE FROM INFORMATION. "Venter had been the first person in history to make a functioning creature from information. Looking at the strings of letters representing the DNA sequence for a virus called phi X174, which infects bacteria, he thought to himself, "I can assemble real DNA based on that computer information." And so he did, creating a virus based on the phi X174 genomic code." https://lnkd.in/dyGvsfW View in LinkedIn

J CRAIG VENTER "followed the same recipe later on to generate the DNA for his larger and more sophisticated creature. Venter and his team figured out how to make an artificial bacterial cell, inserted their man-made DNA genome inside, and watched as the organic life form they had synthesized moved, ate, breathed, and replicated itself." https://lnkd.in/dyGvsfW View in LinkedIn

BOOTING UP NEW LIFE. "Starting with computerized digital code, designing a new form of life, chemically synthesizing its DNA, and then booting it up to produce the actual organism. And because the information is now digital, we can send it anywhere at the speed of light, and re-create the DNA and life at the other end." Page 6. https://lnkd.in/eyZU783 View in LinkedIn

BOOTING UP LIFE. "In May 2010 my team at the J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) synthesized an entire bacterial chromosome from computer code and four bottles of chemicals, and then booted up the chromosome in a cell to create the first synthetic organism." Page 18. https://lnkd.in/eyZU783 View in LinkedIn

SINGULARITY. "Humankind is about to enter a new phase of evolution." Page 7. https://lnkd.in/eyZU783 View in LinkedIn

"DNA, AS DIGITIZED INFORMATION, is not only accumulating in computer databases, but can now be transmitted as an electromagnetic wave at or near the speed of light, via a biological teleported, to recreate proteins, viruses, living cells at a remote location, perhaps changing forever how we view life." https://lnkd.in/eyZU783 View in LinkedIn

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. Venter broke Virchov's Biogenic Law: "omniscient cellula e cellula, or "all living things arise from pre-existing cells." Page 15. https://lnkd.in/eyZU783 View in LinkedIn

THE DIGITAL AGE OF BIOLOGY. "This is now the era of digital biology, in which the proteins and other interacting molecules in a cell can be viewed as its hardware and the information encoded in its DNA as its software." https://lnkd.in/eyZU783 View in LinkedIn

DEATH OF VITALISM. "I believed that with the creation of synthetic life from chemicals, we had finally put to rest any remaining notions of vitalism once and for all." https://lnkd.in/eyZU783 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE this weekend focuses on the molecular biology of taste. Last weekend taste factoids were presented from the human experience of taste. The field of taste has accumulated more knowledge in the past 15 years than the past 100, on account of powerful molecular and genetic studies, and continues to surprise and excite us. View in LinkedIn