Researchers Mimic Bacteria To Produce Magnetic Nanoparticles

• Well, this is good. We’re going to need smart little nano-critters to destroy all the other smart little nano-critters and synthetic organisms that are released accidentally.
• Then we will have come full circle. Confident that we can do it all, we can then get back to baking bread, fishing in the river and all the other activities that only hunter-gatherers have the leisure time to pursue.

Famed geneticist creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel

What happens when the suicide gene mutates?

Advances in Synthetic Biology 2008

I’m pleased to see they’ve at least included some ethics discussion in the conference agenda. That’s a long way from implementing ethics considerations, though.

The New Atlantis – The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology – Jonathan B. Tucker and Raymond A. Zilinskas

Just because there’s so much evolved biology that we don’t understand doesn’t mean we can’t go ahead and build some biology of our own that we don’t understand, either.

United States Patent 5,048,458

So, the application of an electrostatic field can have a massive effect on gene expression patterns in developing organisms.

In this example, the results were favorable. I don’t suppose that’s necessarily always the case.

Maybe somebody should try to figure out how it works.