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Well worth £1m of anyone's money
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:22 am
by spot
This is rather ambitious. I do hope they get somewhere.If we succeed with this, in five years time we will be programming bacterial cells in the computer and compiling and storing its program into these new cells so they can readily execute them [...] We are talking about a highly ambitious goal leading to a fundamental breakthrough that will, ultimately, allow us to rapidly prototype, implement and deploy living entities that are completely new and do not appear in nature, adapting them so they perform new useful functions," says the professor.
Comp-sci boffin aims to REPROGRAM LIFE ITSELF
Well worth £1m of anyone's money
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:19 am
by K.Snyder
Here's Mr. Krasnogor's web page...Natalio Krasnogor's WebPage
He looks incredibly young...
£1m seems a bit small for such a project...
Well worth £1m of anyone's money
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:24 am
by spot
K.Snyder;1374920 wrote: £1m seems a bit small for such a project...It goes a lot further in a UK academic research lab, believe me. And you'll notice he's a Computer Science chap, not a Biologist.
Well worth £1m of anyone's money
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:13 am
by K.Snyder
spot;1374922 wrote: It goes a lot further in a UK academic research lab, believe me. And you'll notice he's a Computer Science chap, not a Biologist.
Yes actually I did notice... From my perspective I'm not actually questioning his validity because I expect he's just as qualified to handle the project. I'm not a biology expert but I am interested to hear of his progress...
He has quite a team...I suppose all grad students need however is some crackers and some pizza coupons...:yh_bigsmi
Well worth £1m of anyone's money
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:14 am
by K.Snyder
K.Snyder;1374928 wrote: He has quite a team...I suppose all grad students need however is some crackers and some pizza coupons...:yh_bigsmi
Oh let's not forget cheap beer!!!!!!!