“We are DNA software driven machines,” states scientist and visionary J. Craig Venter, as he discusses the creation of life with synthetic genomics and his latest book, “Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life.” Venter is interviewed by The Science Network’s Roger Bingham, who agrees with Venter by saying,  “The capacity to blunder slightly, is the real marvel of DNA;  without this special attribute, we’d still be anaerobic bacteria, and there would be no music.”

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