Article: Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included
source: http://www.wiserearth.org/article/f21c28e4471a6e3e0cdeb3d8e20b79a0/new/1/group/TechSkepticsU...
"The project comes as Darpa also plans to throw $20 million into a new synthetic biology program, and $7.5 million into “increasing by several decades the speed with which we sequence, analyze and functionally edit cellular genomes.”
