http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/rizgarmella http://io9.com/tag/rizgarmella One of the runners-up in the "general synthetic lifeform" category of our Mad Science Contest was Rizgar Mella, who wrote a paper discussing the possibility of software-controlled organisms. Mella studies theoretical physics at the Royal Holloway University of London. Here is Mella's paper.

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