'Biological Teleportation' Edges Closer With Craig Venter's Digital-to-Biological Converter

'Biological Teleportation' Edges Closer With Craig Venter's Digital-to-Biological Converter: The year is 2030. In a high-security containment lab, scientists gathered around a towering machine, eagerly awaiting the first look at a newly discovered bacterium on Mars. With a series of beeps, the machine—a digital-to-biological converter, or DBC—signaled that it had successfully received the bacterium’s digitized genomic file. Using a chemical cocktail comprised of the …