The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.
From Craig Venter
In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.
The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.
It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.
Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.
I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.
Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.
Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes.
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.
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