I find the article to be more of a review of past work than actual news. It covers several topics that anyone could read about by picking up a recent biology textbook (siRNA, the ribosome, alternative splicing, etc). I'm surprised this is on the front page of slashdot, while Nature dedicated almost an entire issue regarding the future of DNA technology, including the current state-of-the-art on personalized genomes. Now that is news for nerds.