Open-Source Biology Evolves
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Can a rebel band of scientists pool patented innovation techniques and give them away through the internet? By David Cohn.
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This is what the future looks like.  Heavy adoption of open source at the core of commercial software so that developers can focus on pushing the envelope on innovation, not reinventing wheels that provide no discernible differentiation.
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What might happen if we repurpose biology to our own ends?
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As the proprietary world continues to devour the open-source world, one has to wonder if anyone will be left to shake up the old world.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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Evolutionary biologists have long theorized that the pace of evolution quickens when a species faces great environmental stress. This idea, of course, is a tough one to âprove,â but we can see examples of it all around us. Just look at the IT security industry, where something akin to drastic environmental change is happening right now: Organized cybercrime groups are punching truck-size holes in enterprise security defenses as regulators, shareholders, and attorneys general are putting pressure on companies to lock down sensitive data. The pressure for change will make this weekâs RSA Security Conference in San Francisco less an industry shindig than a live experiment in evolutionary biology. So walk quietly and keep your field glasses handy to spot some exotic new species in these areas:
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Self assembly Open source is moving beyond the real worlds of business and consumer systems into the more experimental sphere of personal gadgetry.â¦
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Taking a cue from open-source software, a Danish company is releasing its beer recipe for its drinkers to hack and modify. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.
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Why do we gossip? Evolution may hold some surprising answers.
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We all have a Mr. Hyde in us. Open source helps to protect the world (and ourselves) from that side.
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InfoWorld - Cobra, a .Net-based programming language, is being readied for open source release as an all-in-one solution to address multiple needs in software development.
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Scienctists have discovered widespread transfer of bacterial genes into the genome of numerous invertebrates.
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An international scientific consortium decodes the chicken genome.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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Open-source database to jump from beta testing to production within three months.
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Genetic evidence suggests humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different.