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COMPLETE REANIMATION OF EXTINCT VIRUSES. Endogenous retroviruses are very common in mammalian DNA, constituting about 8% of human DNA. These are mostly derived from extinct ancient viruses. Many research groups have reanimated these extinct retroviruses and generated infectious functional strains by inserting a part into a modern mouse retrovirus. In the case cited herein, the retrovirus was 4 million years old. " " http://lnkd.in/d7uANWP View in LinkedIn

JURASSIC PARK. "A team of Russian and South Korean scientists are, as of April 2013, attempting to clone a Woolly mammoth using an Elephant as a surrogate mother. Large amounts of well-preserved mammoth tissue have been found in Siberia, but, as of April 2013, the cloning process is still in the planning stages. Once the process is completed, there are plans to introduce the mammoths to Pleistocene Park, a wildlife reserve in Siberia."" " http://lnkd.in/d-xMhvm View in LinkedIn

GEORGE CHURCH "stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times. " "One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data. That’s 14,000 50-gigabyte Blu-ray discs… in a droplet of DNA that would fit on the tip of your pinky. To store the same kind of data on hard drives — the densest storage medium in use today — you’d need 233 3TB drives, weighing a total of 151 kilos."" " http://lnkd.in/dP6WZ7P View in LinkedIn

DE-EXTINCTION "is not a novel idea. Medical researchers have resurrected the full genomes of the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-K and the 1918 influenza virus. Insight into these reanimated species could save millions of lives. Several other extinct genes, including for mammoth hemoglobin, have been reconstructed and tested for novel properties." (George Church). " " http://lnkd.in/dhjkN3m View in LinkedIn

EVERLASTING BIOCOMPUTERS. "The economical benefit of biocomputers lies in this potential of all biologically derived systems to self-replicate and self-assemble...all of the necessary proteins for a certain biochemical pathway, which could be modified to serve as a biocomputer, could be synthesized many times over inside a biological cell from a single DNA molecule, which could itself be replicated many times over. This characteristic of biological molecules could make their production highly efficient and relatively inexpensive."" " http://lnkd.in/d3s2QSs View in LinkedIn

REANIMATION OF EXTINCT SPECIES. "The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA. The goal is to adapt existing ecosystems to radical modern environmental changes, such as global warming, and possibly reverse those changes." (George Church)." " http://lnkd.in/dhjkN3m View in LinkedIn

"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