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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

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