Comments on: Scientists build ‘smart’ material made of DNA

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:56:09 +0000

If the information exists, it can be manipulated.

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:55:21 +0000

Was just thinking that.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:45:16 +0000

Yes, DNA is a data molecule…the matching base pairs give you a binary code that can store the blueprint for a tree, a bee, or thee. There are already researchers working on DNA computing. It’s not as fast as electronic computing, but so massively parallel that it can crunch immense numbers. A code stored in a single cell can be replicated into an organism of any size, from gnat to whale. This is not far from it, it is getting closer to “Bladerunner.” Of course you can code for the cellular machinery.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:39:12 +0000

Has anybody seen the reviews for the coming movie, “Cloud Atlas?”

This film has a new name for the replicant…”fabricant.”

By: JoukoSalonen

JoukoSalonen — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:30:59 +0000

or … this place becomes Solaris (ála Stanislaw Lem) – a planet covered with an ocean-organism

By: A4i

A4i — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:54:36 +0000

Bladerunner – far from it. DNA is data molecule , a place where living genome resides. Only few Individual genes code for specific motor proteins, but they need cellular machinery to do so.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:13:09 +0000

“Their DNA gel, at only 10 microns in width, is roughly the size of a eukaryotic cell…flexible DNA strands that serve as the substrate for molecular motors…allow the gel to mimic other cell behaviors, such as shape-shifting and dividing.”
This is starting to sound like the self-assembling carbon nanocells that I’ve always encouraged everyone here to discuss.

“… the DNA gel’s movement runs on ATP…” So, after all those long hours cramming for microbiology class, I finally see a use for the Krebs cycle.

This is leading to growing the humanoid replicants of “Bladerunner.”

Remember Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty? “…I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.”

They don’t make movies like that any more, and they certainly don’t write words like, “…all these things will be lost in time like tears in the rain.”