Creating Artificial Life
Scientists are working on creating organisms with designer genomes -- and someday, we might end up with bacteria manufacturing our jet fuel. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks...
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♪ (futuristic music) ♪ - With 3D printing these days, you can literally download a file off of the internet, and then build a physical object out of it, and that's been revolutionary in a lot of aspects of life and science and commerce, but biologists were starting to feel a little left out. So they've been developing a way to kind of maybe download life, like creating artificial life with DNA that was put together using information on the Internet. In a sense, it's the first living thing on the planet with a computer for a parent. Now, if you're thinking of some kind of unholy monster grown in a vat, you have to think a little smaller. Actually, much smaller. Back in 2010, a team of researchers in Maryland announced that they'd c...
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♪ (futuristic music) ♪ - With 3D printing these days, you can literally download a file off of the internet, and then build a physical object out of it, and that's been revolutionary in a lot of aspects of life and science and commerce, but biologists were starting to feel a little left out. So they've been developing a way to kind of maybe download life, like creating artificial life with DNA that was put together using information on the Internet. In a sense, it's the first living thing on the planet with a computer for a parent. Now, if you're thinking of some kind of unholy monster grown in a vat, you have to think a little smaller. Actually, much smaller. Back in 2010, a team of researchers in Maryland announced that they'd c...
