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Abstract: To create an organism, two genetic programs are required. The first one is geometric, i.e. a scheme, how to design the body. The second program is in the form of a meaningful text which contains instructions and explanations how to use the first program, how to understand and build the organism. These programs exist in the form of “DNA video tapes”, which are used by the genetic apparatus, acting like a bio-computer. When the bio-computer reads these video tapes, sound and light images appear that constitute the movie program of the development of the organism. When the creation of...

... The first question about life is “Is it a process or an entity, an activity or a thing?”. Is life a substance or force permeating living beings which is not present in non living entities? Or is life the activities that go on in living beings? ...

In today's world, neither the FDA, nor a pharmaceutical company will approve of/develop medicine that is not very, very safe. The development of the agricultural antifungal azoxystrobin, to given an example, cost 130 million USD. Of course nobody invests in something that results in even a small percentage of bad side effects. This has to do with lawyers. Pharmaceutical companies don't care how many lives are saved with their drugs, neither do they care about how many people die because of it. They only care about their shareholders. This means that today, anything that might (help) cure disease but is...

Editor's note: the following document was generated in 2003 for internal use at NASA Johnson Space Center. You can download the entire 100 page report (with appendices, charts, etc.) here (5.6 MB PDF). The first portion of the document describes how the Space and Life Sciences Division at NASA JSC is supposed to conduct business. The second part of this report (excerpts below) opens by saying "Despite the apparent order of the process described above, the reality of the current program tells a more chaotic story." The third section of this report "Recommendations" ends with "The issue is clear. Voodoo...

<p>Once a bastion of fertile farmland, the Garden State aims to become a verdant `pharmland' of drug development, life-science research and biotechnology-based industry.</p> <p>Gov. James E. McGreevey's plan to restructure New Jersey's public research universities is part of a broader vision of creating a super-cluster of pharmaceutical and biotechnology-based entrepreneurship that could give the state economy a new vitality and focus.</p>