Craig Venter creates Digital Biological Converter device to enable biological teleportation aka synthesize DNA into synthesized cells

From NextBigFuture.com

Craig Venter created the world’s first synthetic life. He is building a gadget that could teletransport medicine and vaccines into our homes or to colonists in space.

“We call it a Digital Biological Converter. And we have the prototype,” says Venter from his office and labs at Synthetic Genomics Incorporated (SGI) in La Jolla, California.

Venter has a new book called Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life. It looks at the future Venter is aiming to create through his scientific endeavours in synthetic biology, a kind of turbo-charged version of genetic engineering where scientists design new biological systems – even synthetic life – rather than just tweaking existing organisms by inserting a gene here or there.
Venter, who has a reputation for arrogance, uses his book to describe the nearly 15 years of scientific work that led up to his 2010 breakthrough. It also positions that work at the pinnacle of years of landmark discoveries by the biggest names in biology.

A reader could be forgiven for thinking the book is really aimed at the Nobel prize committee, but Venter claims he just wants more people to understand him. “One of the motivations for the book is to put this in a historical context because of all the confusion out there when we did it,” he says. “I think the work that we have done with the first genome in history, the human genome and with the first synthetic cell is certainly of the world calibre that obviously earns big prizes. Nobel prizes are very special prizes and it would be great to get one. The book is not a campaign to get one.” Venter also wants people to know about what’s coming next – the futuristic home gadget he is building and how it could allow what Venter calls “biological teleportation”.

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