Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Write this in DNA

 Sometimes it seems like the “Age of Synthetic Biology” is actually the “Age of Writing Great Works of Literature Into DNA”. While the tools of synthetic biology increase the potential of genetic engineering by letting us finely control the genomes of experimental organisms, many of the demonstrations of how minutely we can write out DNA sequences have more to do with the western canon than protein function.

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Mad Art Lab | Write this in DNA

Altered from NHGRI; Original image is public domain: http://www.genome.gov/Images/EdKit/bio2c_large.gif


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