Researchers at Yale have achieved a major breakthrough in synthetic biology. They have rewritten the genetic code of an organism, opening up unprecedented possibilities for medicine and industry.

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

(In nature, bacteria use it to sever and disarm the genetic code of invading viruses ... a ferret at the Tongji University’s School of Life Sciences and Technology in Shanghai.

The way our ancestors passed on knowledge was through a very sophisticated code and the Yalanji word for this is Ngujakura; our Lore and it’s The Life Code of the world that we live in.

Finally, this technology could also be used to explore fundamental questions in biology, such as the malleability of the genetic code and the limits of life as we know it. By pushing these boundaries, ...