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...first report emphasized that we should begin by sequencing the relatively tiny genomes (1 million to 13 million letters) of bacteria and yeast and then move on to the 100 million-letter-size genomes of worms and flies. We were confident that by the time we were done, sequencing technology would cost less than 50[cents] a letter, and that by then, we would be ready to tackle the human genome. We were also confident that genomics would pay scientific and medical dividends long before the final letters of the human genome were in place...
This system would be flexible enough to allow researchers who want to express a protein in yeast, bacteria, insects, or any experimental system to use the stored genes easily...
...with beta-carotene--which the body converts into vitamin A--and additional iron, and they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where food shortages are caused by crop damage attributable to pests, drought, poor soil and crop viruses, bacteria or fungi...
MOLECULAR MEDICINE Streaming through the body by the billions, nanobots could chip plaque from arteries, gang up on bacteria and viruses, scour toxins from the bloodstream, repair broken blood vessels--and dozens of jobs doctors haven't dreamed...
...well are we doing at creating living, wanting robots? We are making progress, both from the bottom up and from the top down. At one end, researchers are taking apart the simplest living bacteria--mycoplasmas--whose genome can be stored in less than a quarter of a megabyte, to better understand the process of life at the molecular level. Meanwhile, computer programs that reproduce and evolve are starting to exhibit behaviors we expect from simple living creatures, such as interaction with complex environments and sexual reproduction. Artificial life forms that "live" inside computers have evolved to the point where they...