Drew Endy at the University of Alberta, April 4, 2007, on Synthetic Biology.

Interesting information, crappy video. You can find many of the illustrations for this talk here:
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But this is well worth seeing, for an understanding of the state of this emerging technology. He talks about making it “easy to engineer biology, really easy.” The process is analogous to electronic circuits. He emphasizes the positive potential. I see an equal potential for disaster, leaving powerful tools in the hands of the greedy and stupid.

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