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INCREASING COMPLEXITY. "Just as with the IT revolution, synthetic biology started by designing simple circuits, such as on/off switches, for the DNA in bacterial cells. Then they built more complex circuits, including ways for living cells to communicate with each other and methods (analogous to software programs for biological circuits) to orchestrate the behavior of whole groups of cells in a variety of organisms—yeasts, plants, and mammalian cells." https://lnkd.in/dtkZj87 View in LinkedIn

NBIC. The phrase “convergent technologies” refers to the synergistic combination of four major “NBIC” (nano-bio-info-cogno) provinces of science and technology, each of which is currently progressing at a rapid rate: (a) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (b) biotechnology and biomedicine, including genetic engineering; (c) information technology, including advanced computing and communications; (d) cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience." https://scholar.google.es/scholar?q=brain+machine+interface&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjfqbGUoeHLAhWHQBQKHYrMCLwQgQMICDAA View in LinkedIn

WHITE PAPER by MIT's greatest thinkers. A must-read. https://lnkd.in/dEAvzMk View in LinkedIn

GENES AS LEGO. "Juan Enriquez, a self-described “curiosity expert” and co-founder of the company Synthetic Genomics, compared the digital revolution spawned by thinking of information as a string of ones and zeros to the coming synthetic biology revolution, premised on thinking about life as a mix of interchangeable parts – genes and gene networks – that can be learned and manipulated like any language." http://news.berkeley.edu/2013/03/26/making-living-matter-programmable/ View in LinkedIn

FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: biology and technology. "As Koniku works towards making supercomputers with biological neurons, they have partnered with IT giant Cisco to leverage this new technology to do advanced computation. On the clinical research side, Girihlet has been working with UCSF and New York Blood Center to expand their Immuno Map to measure the immune system and predict disease." https://lnkd.in/dpBztqQ View in LinkedIn

THE EMERGING IT PLATFORM. "The primary objective of the workshop was to articulate a vision for the advancement of the information science and technology aspects of molecular chemistry and biochemistry, and how chemical and biochemical substrates might emerge as a new information technology in the coming century." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

BUILDING NEW LIFE FORMS. "Synthetic biology as the next disruptive platform. Today, the tools of synthetic biology enable the application of mathematical and engineering principles to biological systems. This allows researchers to design, build and test new genomes much more quickly." http://www.prescouter.com/2015/07/synthetic-biology-the-next-big-disruptor/ View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR PROGRAMMING. "We envision that molecular programming will provide new insights and solutions to grand challenges in biology, chemistry, materials science, and medicine." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

ON SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. Like the previous revolutions, this “molecular programming revolution” will take much of its theory from computer science, but will require reformulation of familiar concepts such as programming languages and compilers, data structures and algorithms, resources and complexity, concurrency and stochasticity, correctness and robustness." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR PROGRAMMING. "Another revolution is just beginning, one that will result in new types of programmable systems based on molecules." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn