Interview with J. Craig Venter

ebusinessmedia1 writes "An fascinating article that has Venter reflecting on the work yet to be done in genomics, and his strong sense that biology will drive developments in computing in the near future."

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[pgaffney]

Here's my question for him. Are we any closer to being able to create viruses able to destroy an entire race, but not affect other races? I know a few races I'd like to be rid of.

Given that morons like the above clearly exist, do we indeed want to press ahead with this technology right now? Last I checked, all the peoples of the world weren't getting along too great, and the above troll is a good example of why we wouldn't want this to be TOO common / cheap. If we as a community are opposed to secrecy of science we might be better off just waiting a bit on this stuff, at least until some change in humanity (mebbe we all live in space stations scattered around and thus are difficult to disease into non-existance) makes the threat less deadly.

Genomics, yes, but what about Somatics?

[leonbrooks]

Given that the vast majority of the material inherited from one's mother is not DNA, not genes, and that this cellular material (cytosomes, organelles, replication molecules etc) regulates the DNA, surely we need to start finding out more about this other stuff about now?