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SINGULARITY. "Humankind is about to enter a new phase of evolution." Page 7. 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

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

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

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

BIRTH OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. "Between Chakrabarty’s oil-eating microbe and the birth of Venter’s Synthia, a wave of gene therapies, pharmaceuticals, genetically engineered crops, and manufactured biofuels have transformed science, medicine, industry, and quite possibly, global ecology." http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=6382 View in LinkedIn

GAME CHANGER. "In 2010, biologist Craig Venter, already known as a key figure behind the mapping of the human genome, announced his creation of a microbe that earned the name Synthia: “the first self-replicating species on the planet whose parent was a computer.” https://lnkd.in/eFMx6_S View in LinkedIn

SYNTHESIS OF LIFE. J Craig Venter used a bacteriophage (phi X 174) as a proof-of-concept to make the first synthetic life. This was the first "accurate synthesis of large DNA molecule based only on its published genetic code," capable of reproduction and infectivity. https://lnkd.in/eHptBaV View in LinkedIn

THE CREATION OF LIFE by J Craig Venter's group from four inert bottles of chemicals and a disabled shell of a cell is something that still has not fully permeated the scientific community. I shall present a series of key quotations from his book on the subject, and from the literature. It is perhaps one of the single most important steps forward in decades, and has given birth to Synthetic Biology. View in LinkedIn

CLAYTRONICS MEETS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY is today just a dream, and at present there are no big, nor small initiatives to marry programmable matter with programmable life. As with all confluences of major groundbreaking disciplines, the outcomes will be unpredictable, but assuredly important. We will start with highlights of the very recent birth of synthetic biology. View in LinkedIn