Category Archives: Bioethics

Craig Venter programs a bacterium from scratch

May 21, 2010 – 7:43 am

As you probably heard in the news, Craig Venter, the American biologist best known for starting up Celera Genomics and sequencing the human genome, achieved another big success. He created a fully working new bacterium, programming its DNA from scratch.
Like a computer having hardware and software, a bacterium has a set of components that execute [...]

By Stefano Borini | Also posted in Biology, Chemistry | Comments (0)

Where are they?

May 10, 2008 – 11:53 pm

I found a very interesting commentary by Nick Bostrom, about the existence of extraterrestrial life and the so-called Fermi Paradox.
The point Nick Bostrom presents is sensible: the current evidence is that life is apparently not very frequent in the Universe. Despite all efforts we did toward finding life, intelligent or not, we failed. Moreover, the [...]

By Stefano Borini | Also posted in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Evolution, Space Exploration | Comments (0)
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