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| Life: Digital and Synthetic?by Daniel Sharp, Biopolitical TimesJuly 20th, 2012As Craig Venter unveils his newest plan to create life from scratch, questions about what this means and the consequences of doing so abound.
What is life? A strange – perhaps obtuse – question. But the answer has profound consequences for how we as a society come to grips with novel biotechnologies. |
| Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Destroy the Worldby Daniel Sharp, Biopolitical TimesJune 22nd, 2012A recent article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine hypes Craig Venter and synthetic biology as green solutions to the world’s woes. The real story is what the article missed. |
| Synthetic Eugenics and Scientific Silenceby Daniel Sharp, Biopolitical TimesJune 21st, 2012Yet another worrying statement from a renowned synthetic biologist on redeisgning humans is met with indifference and silence by the scientific community. |
| Mapping Synthetic Biologyby Daniel Sharp, Biopolitical TimesMay 24th, 2012Want to learn where synthetic biology is happening, who is funding it, and how to regulate it? A new academic publication reveals the intriguing details of the global synthetic biology network. |
| Rewritable Memory Encoded into DNAby Erika Check Hayden, NatureMay 21st, 2012Researchers in California have successfully encoded a type of rewritable memory into bacterial DNA. However, it took three years and over 750 attempts to do so, demonstrating the difficulty of coding apparently simple processes into DNA.
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