That sounds fascinating from a theoretical perspective, but what are the practical implications of being able to control molecules that way?
When you regard DNA as a form of technology, does that change the way you look at people or at life in general? Using DNA in this way certainly makes it possible to have a different perspective on what life is. This is a topic that philosophers often worry about, because you just can’t find a satisfactory definition of life. Biologists often don’t worry about it and just get on with studying it. But when you take the reductionist approach—that the phenomena we see can be explained in terms of components and how those components interact with each other—life is a mechanism, and what you look for are molecules that are capable of doing lots of interesting things. That is exactly what we found with DNA: It’s a kind of information-bearing molecule that is very programmable. We can design DNA molecules to act as gates, act as motors, act as catalysts. These findings make it more plausible to view living things as software in a chemical programming language. Trees have no intention of making
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