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Synthetic Biology
I just like the idea of synthetic life forms, so I’m making a note of this blog post on Craig Venter’s efforts to create human-synthesized genomes and bacteria. Reminds me of the work of Rebek on self-assembling molecules… Really cool stuff, and closer to the study of nanotechnology than most other projects claiming to be doing nanotech.
Other researchers are working with RNA to create self-replicating and evolving molecules, but that’s kinda cheating to start with molecules that are already involved in biology. But I assume that they’ll be able to use “fake RNA” and make completely artificial systems that can self-replicate, too.
