Introducing "Bi-Fi": The Biological Internet

Evolution News and Views ^ | 3 October 2012 | Staff

[ShadowAce]

[PapaNew]

Zowie.

[a real Sheila]

“We can now send any DNA message we want to specific cells within a complex microbial community,” said [Monica] Ortiz, the first author of the study. “

Sounds like a cure for cancer to me.

[Kakaze]

Simply amazing, makes you wonder what is already stored their that we can't yet read.

A bite of the creators apple?

[Renderofveils]

"Nasty infection you've got there, Bob. The kids bring that home from school?"

"Nope. Hard drive crashed."

[ShadowAce]

I was wondering about that, myself. If we can send signals to cells now, can we control them? Are the signals merely data, or control signals? Are we replacing the existing data/controls or piggybacking on the main signal?

(Disclaimer: I only read about 1-2 paragraphs before work got in the way--so I posted it real quick)

[moovova]

Great article...incredible research.

Thanks for posting.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Great article...incredible research."

Note that the article gives no clue as to "how" these miraculous things are going to happen. SOTA of DNA sequencing and synthesis has improved, but it is several orders of magnitude short of being able to do all that this article "promises". IOW, the article is a gigantic piece of hype intended to garner more grant funds for research.

[Little Ray]

Just think of what sort viruses we’ll be able to get from the Internet, now.

Lets stick with electronics and quantum computing.

[moovova]

Yeah, I have to admit...the words “government funding” were tugging at the outer edges of my mind as I read the article. I just didn’t give those tugs enough attention because I was so intrigued by the article.

[HomeAtLast]

Mr Watson-Crick, come here, I want you!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“We can now send any DNA message we want to specific cells within a complex microbial community,” said [Monica] Ortiz, the first author of the study."

Or maybe a way to finally drive some sense into Democrats, dupes, fellow-travelers, and other commie cells.

[LearsFool]

I can’t seem to recall who invented this DNA thing...Steve Jobs? Bill Gates?

Oh wait, nevermind...It was another miracle performed by the Darwinists’ twin gods Time and Chance.

/s

[techcor]

Totally awsome. Thanks for posting. If you have a ping list for such things, I’d like to be on it.

[GOPJ]

The other thing that is seamless is the end-to-end intelligent design. As we asked earlier, what's the big problem with inferring an intelligent cause for the origin of the "natural" genetic code, since it also involves the encoding and storage of functional information?

We find God in the code? Interesting.

[for-q-clinton]

Now this is cool! How soon will Microsoft, apple and google try to patent it so no one else can use DNA?

[PoloSec]

PFL

[Renderofveils]

How soon will Microsoft, apple and google try to patent it so no one else can use DNA?

And then how long until electronics developed in this manner are banned from flights because of the risk of biological terrorism?