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O manejo e otimização genética não é história do nosso futuro distante; já está engastado no presente.

cada uma representa a unidade irredutível — o tijolo construtor, a unidade organizacional básica — de um todo maior: o átomo, da matéria; o byte (ou “bit”), da informação digitalizada; o gene, da hereditariedade e informação biológica.b

Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. This was not

Perhaps most important, artificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving humanity the power to reshape and reengineer life.

Scientists discovered that DNA is able to exert control only because enzymes, like most proteins, live fast and die young. Most degrade after a few hours or days.52 So it’s the highly choreographed sequence in which genes call for (or don’t call for) the production of new enzymes that controls most of the action within a cell. It is the changes in