http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13314.html New organisms with artificial proteins in DNA.
I don't understand all of it but what I heard this will make it easier, cheaper and faster to great drugs for the treatment of disease.
ok thanks..that article did not explain the why of it all..and to be fair, not really a field of interest to me..
I think a lot of "inventions" and discoveries are finding the purpose in knowledge. And usually they don't know how to get there. Sometimes science studies things without an immediate purpose.