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Making Life and Money: The Trillion-Dollar Invention

May 24th, 2010
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Dr. Frankenstein was in the wrong business.

While Craig Venter can now lay claim to being the first person to create artificial life, he’s not interested in bolting together a monster. He’s looking to make monster money.

Last week, Venter announced that he had created life using manmade DNA. It’s often referred to as synthetic life.

This was a 15 year mission for Venter.

The announcement is stunning. What the technology could lead to is stunning in the trillion dollar level.

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Synthetic Biology To Change Life In More Ways Than One

April 20th, 2009
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Synthetic BiologyA recent front-page story in the Investor’s Business Daily shows just how far Singularity technology is penetrating mainstream life.

And synthetic biology, just one field that’s adding fuel to the accelerating future, is poised to penetrate the mysteries of biological life even more deeply.

With the big money of Roche, BP, and Microsoft lining up behind them, Synbio researchers are investigating how DNA sequences can be reprogrammed. Basically, synbio can create new life forms and those new forms can be put to work for a myriad of uses.

Some of the predictions are mind-blowing.

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