corwinbad

Super interesting science with such an amazing potential for fertility / longevity!

The most amazing science paper you can read this year! Synthetic embryos grown ex-utero (no sperm/no eggs/no utero needed) - the scientific basis for renewal.bio

Great initiative! happy to share the news

There’s a VC funded company working on this (in the Bay Area) - Mammoth Diagnostics http://www.mammothdiagnostics.com

Using Twist Bioscience DNA - interesting data points: 215Pb/Gram ~1,300 copies per unique oligo enough to get a 100% data back Almost unlimited coping of recoverable data using PCR

Now only need to increase the throughput and price of DNA synthesis by 4-6 orders of magnitude

Good! enough of the fear mongering - this is a great technology that we need to continue to improve and use to potentially solve huge issues we have

Also tools companies: Transcriptic Emerald cloud lab Genome Compiler teselagen Benchling

Great move Max!

This is Omri (founder of Genomecompiler.com). I'm always amazed about how many biologists think their work is pipetting small amounts of liquids and performing massively low productivity experiments rather then their real work of increasing our understanding of nature and finding solution to real world problems (like disease, hunger, aging, running out of civilization critical commodities, etc) using the best available tools.

Robots aren't taking our jobs - they help us be more productive so a biologist Ph.D. might in the future get paid like a CS undergrad!

Why funny? biology is coding. 1,0 or A,T,G,C - all the same :-)

Get your genome compiler here: http://genomecompiler.com

phiX174 virus - one of the world's smallest self-replicating programs :-)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_001422.1

Enterobacteria phage phiX174 sensu lato, complete genome

5386 bp ss-DNA

Ebloa source code - 18,959bp

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_002549.1

Also Try http://genomecompiler.com

:-)

We don't want any gaming - we think it's cool but hate if people would game the system and make us look bad..

Love this!

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLhU1RGTHN4 and http://downtownproject.com/2013/dr-omri-avirav-drory-democra... to learn more about this amazing project!

Hi, I was a speaker at the first Google "Solve for <X>" conference (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qcDQaY8Mw).

In general it's an invite only conference. They invite about 15 speakers and overall ~60 people to the event. Very high level people - from the google co-founders, many google[x] employees, google svp's, investors (Steve Jurveston, Mark Andreessen and other) and google friends.

I got there for two reasons: 1) My company (http://genomecompiler.com) is a Singularity University company and Peter Diamandis referred us 2) We fit the bill for a moonshot (huge problem, breakthrough technology, radical solution)

It's in a very pleasant cordevalle resort and they treat you to great housing, food and discussions. Like late night slide show from the international space station with astronauts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Garan and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Coleman

Like sitting in dinner table with Sergei and hear Peter talking space flights and astroids just to have him launch a astroids mining company after a few month. Or listening to Google Glass head talk about electronics in contact lenses (!) a few months before google glass was released :-)

Anyhow - I love what they are trying to achieve, both in this effort and in supporting Singularity University - to get people to solve humanity grand challenges with the fast moving technologies that are coming online. Be a support group and cheerleader for you while you're in the ups and downs of extremely "out-there" startup.

Amazing opportunity and the time of my life.

Forget sequencing - DNA synthesis and designing of new genetic programs/apps (new creatures) using synthetic biology and software like Genome Compiler (genomecompiler.com) is the interesting future.

Hi, this is Omri (Genome Compiler CEO) - thanks for the share!

For more info contact me at omri@genomecompiler.com

Hi, this is Omri, the founder of Genome Compiler (http://genomecompiler.com) mentioned in the article. It's great to see many of my fellow entrepreneurs in this field shamelessly plugging away their companies :-)

Anyhow, this is indeed a great field to be in and I'm happy HN is taking notice.

I recommend this interview we gave for Leo Laporte (TwiT.tv) about this field: http://www.genomecompiler.com/news/2012/6/4/democratizing-cr...

Feel free to contact us for more information: info@genomecompiler.com

Hi Lupatus, thanks!

Well, today you have to know some biology and have access to lab (or community lab like bio-curious or genspace) to "execute" the biology. We are trying to abstract biology to make it more accessible to people outside of the research labs then you can order the DNA and transform living things in your kitchen :-)

Hi j_s, this is Omri from Genome Compiler - thanks for the mention!

Anyone can download our free gene/genome design software and start ordering DNA today at genomecompiler.com

Omri

Hi - this is omri (founder of genomecompiler) - our kickstarter project is still awaiting amazon payments authorization and kickstarter authorization for the project. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLhU1RGTHN4 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qcDQaY8Mw for details

Cool, they talked about our genomecompiler (http://genomecompiler.com) and the kickstarter project for glowing plants we're in the process of posting.

omri@genomecompiler.com

Hi, My name is Omri and I'm the founder of Genome Compiler (genomecompiler.com) - we built a free app for designing and ordering of synthetic DNA - check it out!

also gave a talk at Google "solve for <X>": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qcDQaY8Mw and at Leo Laporte Twit.tv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLhU1RGTHN4

Check out http://genomecompiler.com

It's a design/debug/compile tool for synthetic biology

check out http://genomecompiler.com

We might not know enough, but there's much we CAN do even with today's limited knowledge. I see this field moving so fast that in relative few years we could do almost anything in living things.

Omri (CEO Genome Compiler)