Bio-era has just released a pretty interesting, in-depth study of the current and future impacts of sequencing and synthesis technologies and the emergence of synthetic genomics on key sectors of the US economy.
Here’s the link to the press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/2/prweb503903.htm. You can also access a podcast about the report release there.
Also, here’s the link http://www.bio-era.net/research/GenomePurchaseForm.html to the form you fill out to get either or both printed copies of the report, and/or a link to allow you to download the entire .pdf file (32 MB) for free. The link to the .pdf file will be emailed to you upon submitting the form, and is free except for the inconvenience of filling out the form. Printed copies of the report are only available for purchase (sorry, but color printing is really expensive…). Personally, I recommend getting the printed version if you can afford it, since it’s such a large file.
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Reading of the human genome, backbone of the new technology
biotechnology it is described here like the use of biological functions as a technological tool, with a vocation to produce goods and services. For the authors of the report/ratio, the great danger consists in mixing the real potentialities which will offer, in the long term, biotechnologies with matérialisation of these prospects. While recognizing the importance of molecular biology and genetic engineering, the report/ratio insists basically on the possible repercussions in all the fields of agriculture, industry and the medical applications..........
...........if it is the data processing which allows, today, by its computing power, to decipher and to organize genetic information, the interdisciplinarity between chemists, biologists, physiologists, physicists and biologists cellular seems an absolute need to solve this complexity of alive . Machines are thus especially dedicated with this ambition, like these petaflop, two million times more powerful than the offices of the most powerful computers today . As the race shows it enters Celera Genomics and Human Genome Project, the private companies are in the foreground of deciphering and are carrying the gigantic potential market of the genetic trade ............
The biotechnological Revolution will affect all the aspects of our life: our way of eating, our sexual and marital life, our way of making children and of raising them, our way of working, of making the, political one, of expressing our faith, of perceiving the universe which surrounds us and the place that we occupy there - all individual and collective realities of our existence will be deeply upset by new technologies of the next century, the century of biotechnologies..............