DARPA Launches New Program Generative Optogenetics GO Enabling Living Cells to Write Genetic Sequences

DARPA Launches New Program Generative Optogenetics GO Enabling Living Cells to Write Genetic Sequences

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has recently launched what has been described by some as a sinister biotechnology project: “Generative Optogenetics” GO, a high-risk initiative, but claimed to be high reward project, engineered for producing intricately controlled light-burst signals that cause targeted and impacted living cells to write DNA and RNA.  Described by DARPA as the “massless information transfer” it enables genetic m…