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"BIOLOGICAL COMPUTERS can interact directly with living cells. One goal is to programme DNA-based computers to work inside the body to combat disease. Chemotherapy drugs currently target all rapidly dividing cells, including, for example, hair cells; a DNA computer could be programmed to identify and kill only cancerous cells."" " http://lnkd.in/dN6qj6i View in LinkedIn

CHURCH'S BOOK "Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves" says that it is now "possible to resurrect practically any extinct animal whose genome is known or can be reconstructed from fossil remains" as has been done for the wooly mammoth and Neanderthal man. View in LinkedIn

MICRO-DNA COMPUTERS POSSIBLE. "We can get three trillion computers, working in parallel, in a space the size of a water droplet, The 0s and 1s of conventional computers are replaced with the four DNA bases: A, C, G and T. Operations can be translated into strands of DNA using these bases, and the way the DNA strands interact with each other produces new strands which can be decoded as output values."" " http://lnkd.in/dN6qj6i View in LinkedIn

RECREATING THE NEANDERTHAL. "Church speculated that it could be technically possible to make a Neanderthal by reconstructing the DNA of a Neanderthal and modifying living human cells accordingly."" " http://lnkd.in/d4Ys85G View in LinkedIn

LIMIT OF SILICON STORAGE NEAR. "A 3.5-inch floppy disk could store a measly 1.44 megabytes of data –" "not even enough to fit a single mp3 music file. Today, a small one gigabyte (1,000 megabytes) USB flash drive can store about 200 songs. It is possible to store one terrabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes) on a single USB stick, enough for 2,000 hours of music. Flash memory USB sticks of this size are already on the market." But the limits of storage are being approached. " " http://lnkd.in/dN6qj6i View in LinkedIn

DNA HARD DRIVE. ""In 2011 we had 1.8 times 10 to the 21 bytes of information stored. By 2020 it will be 50 times that. That's an astounding number; and doesn't include a much larger set of data that's thrown away. At theoretical maximum, one gram of single stranded genetic code can encode 455 exabytes of information. That's 4.9 times 10 to the 11 GB. (the latest iPad (has) 64 GB of storage space.). DNA ... is often readable even after being exposed to unfavorable conditions for thousands of years."" " http://lnkd.in/dk76wna View in LinkedIn

DNA BUILDING BLOCKS. "DNA nanostructures as building blocks for research & future medical therapeutics." Hot topic lecture. " " http://lnkd.in/dZpApBc View in LinkedIn

FUTURE BRICKS AND MORTAR. "DNA will become the building material of the future." (George Church). This important predictive statement bears unwrapping. " " http://lnkd.in/d5SRnBf View in LinkedIn

LONGEST MOLECULE IN UNIVERSE. "DNA is one of the longest molecules in the natural world. You possess enough DNA, stretched out in a line, to reach from here to the sun and back more than 300 times. Yet each cell nucleus must contain two metres of DNA, so it has to be very flexible. It coils - much like a telephone cord - into tight complex structures called chromatins without corrupting the vital information within."" " http://lnkd.in/dWuV7t5 View in LinkedIn

CHURCH BETS ON STEM CELLS (iPS). "This is where I’m putting almost all of my chips these days, because it combines many of my interests–genomics, sequencing, epigenetics, synthetic biology, stem cells. I don’t think people have fully appreciated how quickly adult stem cells and sequencing and synthetic biology have progressed. They have progressed by orders of magnitude since we got IPS. Before that, they basically weren’t working."" " http://lnkd.in/dWBcA_p View in LinkedIn