Hemi, demi, semi evolutionary ping. Not for everyone, but for those interested in Biotechnology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster - a must read.
Pick out the usual suspects who might like this.
Rather than randomly altering a few genes in a cell's DNA as in old-school genetic engineering, some researchers are now breaking genomes into collections of parts and precisely reassembling them to do a scientist's bidding. The fruits of the approach are taking many different forms: bacteria that can count or form patterns in a petri dish, a virus redesigned to make its genes easier to study, microbes programmed to seek out and destroy tumors, and bacteria that spit out great quantities of a rare and complicated bogus argument for ID and against evolution (The Fesbrew Chugator bacteria).
Hah! They said we'd never create life in a test tube!
Interesting article and I'm only at the first section title.