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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:37:16 +0530
Such a rewrite is now feasible because the original code—contained
within the genomes of naturally evolved organisms (which SynBio
practitioners call Life 1.0)—is being deciphered at an accelerating
rate. This doesn't mean that we understand everything there is to know
about living organisms. But SynBio engineers think they can take what we
know and design and construct novel forms of life that are programmed to
do practical things that couldn't otherwise be done. "We can now regard
cells as 'programmable matter'," says Ron Weiss, a Princeton computer
scientist who now writes genetic software for cells. Weiss is convinced
that he will soon be able to "program cell behaviors as easily as we
program computers."
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18882828/site/newsweek/page/0/