About this deck
A century of laboratory technique reduced biology to a programmable substrate. Fourteen pages on what we built, what we mean by it, and what it might do next. Key sections include: Reading, Writing, Editing Life.; The molecular turn.; Recombinant DNA.; PCR — a chain reaction in molecular cloning.; Sequencing — reading the text.; Sequencing humanity.; CRISPR — programmable scissors.; mRNA — code as medicine.; Synthetic biology, computational biology, AI.; Glossary..
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