Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” What’s some magic you’ve seen lately?
Steve Jurvetson: Some of the most interesting magic I’ve seen recently is in the domain of genetic alchemy, where you can change one organism into another by swapping DNA. We are on the cusp of being able to write the code of life as if it were a poem or computer program. That gives us a whole new set of capabilities, in what I would call a second generation of industrial biotech, where we don’t just cut and paste from nature, but we actually write code from the ground up however we choose. Five or 10 years ago, folks would have said it’s impossible to change one organism into another by swapping out 100% of its DNA, yet this has been demonstrated in the past year by Craig Venter and his team at Synthetic Genomics. This is just a precursor to the next step, which is putting a fully synthetic chromosome into a singlecelled organism. Have you invested in this science? How does it work? Yes, I sit on the board of Synthetic Genomics, and we have two other investments that are also in this
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