Craig Ventor will teleport your DNA
October 18, 2013
In 2007 J. Craig Venter and his team sequenced an entire human genome—Venter’s own—making scientific history. Three years later his team became the first to successfully create “synthetic life,” and won a Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Leadership Award. In his newest book, Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life, out Oct. 17, Venter explains the history of the synthetic field and describes how biological engineering could lead to drastic advances in energy generation, food production, and even evolution. PM sat down with Venter to discuss teleportation, alien life, and the future of the human species. (Popular Mechanics)
