{"id":5839,"date":"2014-01-14T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2014-01-14T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:30:52","slug":"5839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/5839\/","title":{"rendered":"Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life with J. Craig Venter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ife at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life with J. Craig Venter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/Life-at-the-Speed-of-Light-From-the-Double-Helix-to-the-Dawn-of-Digital-Life-with-J-Craig-Venter-Helen-Edison-Lecture-Series-25527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5845\" alt=\"25527\" src=\"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/25527-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>&#8220;We are DNA software driven machines,&#8221; states scientist and visionary J. Craig Venter, as he discusses the creation of life with synthetic genomics and\u00a0his latest book, <a title=\"Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life with J. Craig Venter -- Helen Edison Lecture Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/Life-at-the-Speed-of-Light-From-the-Double-Helix-to-the-Dawn-of-Digital-Life-with-J-Craig-Venter-Helen-Edison-Lecture-Series-25527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life.&#8221;<\/a> Venter is interviewed by The Science Network&#8217;s Roger Bingham, who agrees with Venter by saying, \u00a0&#8220;The capacity to blunder slightly, is the real marvel of DNA; \u00a0without this special attribute, we&#8217;d still be anaerobic bacteria, and there would be no music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Helen Edison Lecture Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/helenedison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5849\" alt=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/35-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>The <a title=\"Helen Edison Lecture Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/helenedison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen Edison Lecture Series<\/a> is the result of a major gift from the late Helen Edison, a San Diego philanthropist who supported numerous local educational, cultural and arts efforts.\u00a0In accordance with the gift, the Helen Edison Lecture Series presents ongoing free public lectures on issues that advance humanitarian purposes and objectives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Join the conversation on\u00a0<a title=\"FaceBook UCTV\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uctelevision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FaceBook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uctelevision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, @UCTelevision, #digitallife, #helenedisonlectures.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are DNA software driven machines,&#8221; states scientist and visionary J. Craig Venter, as he discusses the creation of life with synthetic genomics and\u00a0his latest book, &#8220;Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life.&#8221; Venter is interviewed by The Science Network&#8217;s Roger Bingham, who agrees with Venter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[7,8,9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}