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The origins of this shift can be traced back to the technological changes in the process of justice dispensation in the early 19th century but a wholly new stage appears now to have arrived.
In its seeming role **as the physical code for every variety** of ‘biological’ object, DNA and its technologies appear to offer the kind of encyclopaedic, philosophers stone of knowledge and causal power long sought by authority.
Such a view is more than supported by scientists, whose faith in the quasi-alchemical power of DNA is now at least on a par similar to that once granted to physics and its phenomena...

-> En sa qualité apparente de... aha! "code physique" ne convient pas du tout (ou c'est moi qui pinaille?)...

Si vous avez une idée de génie... :-)