Venter’s Newest Synthetic Bacteria Has Secret Messages Coded in its DNA

This strikes me as the biotech equivalent of map makers introducing fake streets or phone book makers including fake people.

So how long before DNA has DRM?

It would surprise some to find "JEHOVA" in our DNA.

This is the next industrial revolution.

"The underlying concept is that the software of life (DNA) will build its own hardware (the cell)." (from the earlier article http://singularityhub.com/2010/05/20/venter-creates-first-sy...)

Does this go as far as saying human individual is software + hardware? Or more complex data center?