Genes are amazing and synthetic genes have both positive and other potentials. A cannot believe the complexity of what Venter is describing and what they are attempting to do. I think we aught to be in awe of LIFE and its capacity to create other life. Fascinating!
I learned about this talk in Dr. Venter's book "Life at the speed of light" Also its fascinating to think that one day we might be able to translate valuable protein coding information over the internet so millions of people. This would revolutionize the way medicine and nutrition is delivered. Then perhaps in about 1000 years, future human species will be able to ride the light and transfer their genetic information into other planets to be synthesized anew.
I'm sitting here trying to boot my miniature Golden Retriever DNA. I believe my sequencing data was OK and checked against several sequenced data; and I only fixed the growth issue to keep adult size small and implemented a minor modification for blue eyes based on comparison with human DNA, but none of the cell samples boot up. Damn hard to debug this thing. Any ideas?
This is just a small step before eventually being able to form our own sequences of DNA which create life forms with properties non-existent in the current world. for example a dog with horns as crazy and useless as that sounds, it's just a possible example.
Genes are amazing and synthetic genes have both positive and other potentials. A cannot believe the complexity of what Venter is describing and what they are attempting to do. I think we aught to be in awe of LIFE and its capacity to create other life. Fascinating!
Many thanks Michelle for the link!
Good talk about how DNA works n it's functioning
I learned about this talk in Dr. Venter's book "Life at the speed of light" Also its fascinating to think that one day we might be able to translate valuable protein coding information over the internet so millions of people. This would revolutionize the way medicine and nutrition is delivered. Then perhaps in about 1000 years, future human species will be able to ride the light and transfer their genetic information into other planets to be synthesized anew.
I'm sitting here trying to boot my miniature Golden Retriever DNA. I believe my sequencing data was OK and checked against several sequenced data; and I only fixed the growth issue to keep adult size small and implemented a minor modification for blue eyes based on comparison with human DNA, but none of the cell samples boot up. Damn hard to debug this thing. Any ideas?
"What i can not create, i do not understand" - Feynman
Venter @ 14:21
you can see them / and read the transcript / on edge org ...conversation/what-is-life
This is just a small step before eventually being able to form our own sequences of DNA which create life forms with properties non-existent in the current world. for example a dog with horns as crazy and useless as that sounds, it's just a possible example.
not very good speaker, not much original thought, shotgun was main idea he pushed that
gave him fame.