Monday, 24 May 2010

Charlie Brooker on Craig Venter's new life form

This cracked me up;

"So far, so baffling. Then it gets weirder. To "watermark" their artificial bug, the geneticists spliced a James Joyce quotation into the DNA sequence. The unsuspecting genome now has the phrase "to live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life" written through it like letters in a stick of rock. In other words, it's the world's most pretentious bacterium. After Quentin Letts."

Read entire article at The Guardian; http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/24/charlie-brooker-artificial-life-here

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