Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live.

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see.

Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.