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In almost all cyberpunk masterpieces in literature, comics, movies, games, or whatever media exposure we think of when it comes to this genre, the settings are familiar. Dark atmosphere in both social and technological aspects of the story with dystopian surroundings and a thin, distinguished line between all characters within, no matter whether they are good or bad. I can't tell exactly why, but despite all the prosaic backgrounds and used stereotypes, I actually like this literary movement, perhaps because of the fact that people can't be really divided into good and bad per se. We are all combinations of all possible adjectives out there, and their summary is what makes us what we are. Actually, this is more accurate and closer to the truth compared to the "normal" or "usual" fiction with its ordinary hero-villain relations and idealized characters. Of course, like in any other genre, there are many poor and unmentionable works but also couple of those ma...

DNA is a fascinating world. That single molecule of life contains all the information about an individual living being. Any bacteria, plant, insect, algae, fish, animal, or human grows from that one molecule of seed. Probably even some alien form is still waiting to be discovered on some moon orbiting Jupiter or Saturn. In one way or another, the same could be true with all life in the universe. All of us are grown from that single instruction manual inside the single DNA set of written directions. And there are no two identical DNAs in existence; even if we could mix the same two identical human egg and sperm cells several times, similar but different resulted DNA would always be the outcome. We are surely still not mastering DNA and bioengineering—it is still young science, and even though one giant molecule of life was hinted at by various scientists and scholars more than a century ago, it was only in the early fifties of the 20th century when James Watson and Francis Crick created...