Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Synthezoids, Androids, and Recombinants, oh, my!

It looks like researchers have taken another step into sci-fi territory with partially synthetic DNA.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/23/stable-semi-synthetic-organism/

Mapping out Healthcare

It looks like we're coming to the point where machine learning as applied to genome data analysis will be able to help us with customized healthcare planning - but I wonder what it means for insurance as well. As with many technologies, there are good and bad sides to this. I like the idea of preventive healthcare through genome data analysis, though.

http://futurism.com/end-to-illness-machine-learning-is-revolutionizing-how-we-prevent-disease/