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Pentagon to breed "immortal" synthetic organisms
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T.K. RandallFebruary 11, 2010 ·
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The Pentagon are looking to invest millions of dollars in to developing synthetic organisms in a new project called BioDesign.
The organisms would remove the "randomness of natural evolutionary advancement" and could be programmed not only to live forever but also to die when required through the use of a specially designed "kill switch".
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
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