Digitized life... "Life ultimately consists of DNA-driven biological machines...      All living cells run on DNA software, which directs hundreds to thousands of protein robots.       We have been digitizing life since we first figured out how to read the software of life by sequencing DNA.   Now we can go in the other direction by starting with computerized digital code, designing a new form of life, chemically synthesizing its DNA, and then booting it up to produce the actual organism.   And because the information is now digital we can send it anywhere at the speed of light and re-create the DNA and life at the other end. One may transmit digitized instructions or software. A human genome contains only around 6×109 bits of information. If we perfect a way to send a digitized version of DNA code in the form of an electromagnetic wave, and then use a unique receiver at a distant location one might re-create life.”                                            “Life at the Speed of Light", a book written by J.C. Venter in 2013.              News Release 2005            Science Express / www.sciencexpress.org / 20 May 2010 / Page 1 / 10.1126/science.1190719            a synopsis of how 1st synthetic cells made  &           Craig Venter discusses his goal for synthetic life*view@home   back