TED 2008.3 Craig Venter
February 28, 2008 by Chris | permalink
designing and synthesizing life.
after mapping the genome, now he is looking at digitizing life. one of his areas of focus is to create 'creatures' which can create ethanol or hydrogen. it was an interesting talk. it is not genesis, but manipulation of the building blocks in a conscious way. he looks at synthetic genomics as the way to do what is known as combinatorial genomics. there are 20 million 'blocks' which can be combined now.
he is now working on an on-line tool to create synthetic life. he believes that he will be making a new 4th generation bio-fuel within the next 18 months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter
