Pytchblend - DNA⊥AИⱭ (DNALand) - assembled as a palindrome, my comment on our god-like powers in gene manipulation. Please leave a comment.

Are we not drawn onward to new era, we few?
Don't nod.
Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard.
Evil I did dwell, lewd did I live.
Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard.
Don't nod.
We few, are we not drawn onward to new era?
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In Mar-2016 Scientists at the Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics.designed and constructed the world's first synthetic lifeform "Mycoplasma Laboratorium". This minimal bacterial cell (JCVI-syn3.0) contained just 473 genes... The cell had four hidden watermarks:

  • Html script which read to a browser as text congratulates the decoder with an email link (mroqstiz@jcvi.org) to click to prove the decoding.
  • A list of authors and a quote from James Joyce: "To live to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life".
  • More authors and a quote from Robert Oppenheimer (uncredited): "See things not as they are, but as they might be".
  • Yet more authors and a quote from Richard Feynman: "What I cannot build, I cannot understand".

More: jcvi.org/cms/press/press-relea...er-institute-an

What is Synthetic Biology (12-page PDF): etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgrou...er_size_rev.pdf

Posters!: synbiowatch.org/curricula-and-...nthetic-biology

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