Many things in biology could be construed to be pointers if you squint hard enough--- promoters, transcription factors, all sorts of far-reaching regulation-eff

Many things in biology could be construed to be pointers if you squint hard enough--- promoters, transcription factors, all sorts of far-reaching regulation-effecting small molecules and proteins and variations of DNA/RNA molecules. Is "guide RNA" a pointer? what about the other gene targeting techniques-- like TALENs? see http://diyhpl.us/wiki/gene-editing/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/gene-editing/ "Primer for synthetic biology" http://www.openwetware.org/images/3/3d/SB_Primer_100707.pdf http://www.openwetware.org/images/3/3d/SB_Primer_100707.pdf pretty old presentation but here you go, "Synthetic Biology: A primer" http://cellbase.epfl.ch/twiki/pub/IGEM/PaperCollection/iGEM_synth_bio_lecture_2010.pdf http://cellbase.epfl.ch/twiki/pub/IGEM/PaperCollection/iGEM_...