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UK scientists demonstrate how DNA could be used to archive digital data, encoding Shakespeare's sonnets and other information in the "life molecule". 
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Good article on the BBC Future website : As our technologies and understanding advance, will we eventually be able to look at a pile of raw DNA sequence and glean all the workings of the organism it belongs to? Just as physicists can use the laws of mechanics to predict the motion of an object, can biologists use fundamental ideas in genetics and molecular biology to predict the traits and flaws of a body based solely on its genes? Could we pop a genome into a black box, and print out the image of a human? Or a fly? Or a mouse? Not easily... Click on the image or the title to learn more.
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Good Article on Craig Venter By Thomas Goetz. in 1992 Venter left the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to head the nonprofit Institute for Genomic Research. Six years later he founded Celera Genomics, a rival to the NIH project that aimed to sequence the full code of the human genome. In 2001 Celera officially “tied” the NIH to the genome finish line, though the company’s sequence was more than a bit further along. In 2004 he sailed around the world, discovering thousands of new species and sequencing millions of new genes. In 2007 he unveiled his own genome and in 2010 he announced the first successful synthesis of life—a unique critter borne from two distinct organisms, thus proving for the first time that it is indeed possible to create new organisms for specific purposes and functions. More at http://bit.ly/JEbBxS Via Gerd Moe-Behrens
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Sir David Frost meets the scientist who first sequenced the human genome and went on to create artificial life.
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Thanks to Jed@4Dpipeline for suggestion for this.
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by Sanna J. Ali : "This essay explores the ethical issues surrounding the public policy debate of imposing a moratorium on synthetic biology research. In particular, this article explores the risks of synthetic biology research, including those of safety, intellectual property rights, and a shift in the global economy, while assessing whether these risks are dangerous enough to call for a moratorium." http://bit.ly/LhPZcH Via Gerd Moe-Behrens
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Using DNA as an archive mechanism is a deeply interesing idea. all digital data storage so far has a limited lifespan related to the technologies used to create, write and read the storage medium. Anyone who has migrated files from tape drives, floppy drives, hardiscs to cd-roms and dvd's know this intimately. The research by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) at Hinxton near Cambridge uses DNA as an archiving mechansim encoding data into specific nucleobases. The approach uses current generation DBA synthesis machines to generate the encoded DNA and potential data storage lifespan time is several thousand years. Click image or title to learn more.