Re: [MURG] news item - from /.

["king-yin yan" <y.k.y@lycos.com>]

 cat13 wrote:
>http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/goho20403.asp?
>
>Because most of the news posts here tend to be technical, I don't
>post news that I come across (it's much more mainstream, and so has
>probably already been seen; also, being nontechnical, it's less
>informative).  However, since our average has skyrocketed above even
>the 5 posts/month landmark recently, perhaps this will get lost in
>the noise.
>That was a complicated way of saying "if I should post things like
>this more often, let me know."
>
>The news item itself: "Scientists are creating organisms by building
>their genomes from scratch."  This appears to be a story about corporate
>ventures, meaning it'll be accomplish within the next few years.
>Creating organisms from building their genomes by hand MIGHT allow us
>to develop nanorobotics (correct me if I'm being naive).  Caveats:
>they're in the proof-of-concept phase now; being able to design an
>organism with specific traits/abilities could take another decade.

Very interesting. A combination of this approach and ab initio
approaches may lead to nanoprobes.



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