Really interesting.

More interesting are the terms he uses in the podcast:

"the cell operating system"

"debug the system"

"compile the genome"


:-)

Rafael

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Russell McMahon <apptechnz@gmail.com>wrote:

> 20 May 2010 - "Life will never be the same again"! :-)
> A whole new series of puns occur :-)
>
> The most dangerous man on earth has done it again!.
> (Aided by a large team - 20 people's names on paper, with his last).
>
> The amazing Craig Venter, who utterly transformed the human genome
> project by competing with the 'establishment',and bringing in a result
> from the combined teams about a decade ahead of schedule has, drum
> roll ...
>
> ====>                 ... successfully produced the first
> self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell.
>
> The basic premise is essentially trivial [tm].
> Reading what it took to achieve the result is astounding.
>
> This is only another very small step on the long path to understanding
> life, creating artificial life and messing everything up totally :-).
>
>
> http://www.gizmag.com/first-synthetic-organism-created/15165/
>
> FULL TEXT "SCIENCE" PAPER  - get it while you can
>
>          http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/science.1190719v1.pdf
>
> Despite Venter's somewhat abrasive style, and sometime rough edges I
> fell a lot happier with the future of all life being in his hands,
> than those of many others. IMHO he has displayed a remarkable
> awareness of his and our limitations as he continues to extend the
> outer limits of our knowledge  of biological science. (The Louis Wu of
> earthside biology :-) ).
>
> Podcast interview !!!!!!
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;science.1190719/DC2
>
>
>
> Russell
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