"Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" Craig Venter asks. His answer is "yes" — and pretty soon. He walks through his latest research and promises that we’ll soon be able to build and boot up a synthetic chromosome. In 2001, Craig Venter made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean’s biodiversity. Now he’s working to create the first synthetic lifeforms –… Full bio and more links
- The electronics industry only had a dozen or so components and look what came out of that. We now have a database with 20 million genes
- With a small team we can do more molecular biology than the entirety of science over the last 20 years
- 4th generation fuel . Corn to ethanol was a bad experiment. Much more effective stuff coming soon. Start with CO2 as its feedstock. First 4th generation fuels in 18 monthes. This was filmed in February 2008.
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