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In an article for The New York Times, John Markoff writes about a recent synthetic biology conference hosted by MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. “Neil Gershenfeld, a physicist who is the director of the Center for Bits and Atoms, said that the improvement in the capacity to read and write biological genes has given rise to the possibility of ‘spectacular advances,’” Markoff writes.