Juan runs through new bio-technology like searching exhalations for DNA signatures of illness, operating on organs outside of the body and programmable cells to solve the worlds energy needs.

J. Craig Venter, genome scientist and chairman of the J. Craig Venter Institute, discusses publishing the first diploid genome and his new project of creating synthetic life-forms. The Wall Street Journal's Jacob Goldstein has the interview. UPDATE: Celebrity US scientist Craig Venter has built a synthetic chromosome using chemicals made ...