Scripting Life

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79443

Apparently a group of scientists is working on a programming language that can be ran on cells of bacteria. Right now the technology is at the state of modifying DNA to have the cells grow a certain way and create specific proteins, however this can be expanded to architecture in an almost sci-fi way. Imagine Biological cells as the building material. That would be the true definition of an aggregate system, where each cell would be programmed on how to grow and the space/architecture would come from the rules within each cell. The architectural equivalent of the bee swarm would be created.