My little group of molecular programmers are trying to refashion all of these parts from DNA.

And so we are going to use molecules and refashion this thing, rebuild everything from the bottom up, using DNA in ways that nature never intended, using DNA origami, and DNA origami to seed this algorithmic self assembly.

Germany, on the other hand, is not widely considered progressive in this realm. Yet, fairly quietly, Germany has done as much as any other country in recent years to court foreigners and refashion itself as a country of immigration.

It was this Sunni hegemony and not merely that of Saddam s Ba athist regime that was toppled by the United States. But, given Iraq s history and demography, the American attempt to refashion the country as a functioning democracy has foundered on three shoals the Shia majority s empowerment, the Kurds s refusal to give up their hard won de facto mini state in the north, and the Sunnis violent campaign to undermine any system that they do not lead.