This will be interesting

[kallend 2,183]

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299857,00.html

First artificial life form created.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[Lefty 0]

Neat! Could have done without the obvious right-wing bias of the Fox News article, but interesting development nonetheless.

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

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The man-made chromosome will be transplanted into an existing bacterial cell and is expected to take control of the cell.

Still haven't created life yet, but they're getting closer.

[Adriandavies 0]

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Neat! Could have done without the obvious right-wing bias of the Fox News article, but interesting development nonetheless.

Personally I am no fan of Fox News but I couldn't read any right wing bias in the article especially as most of it was drawn from the British Guardian newspaper which is a left leaning publication.

Apart from that tough you are right about it being an interesting article. I wonder where a break through like this will lead.

[Royd 0]

Sounds like he's got the world's problems licked.

[vortexring 0]

I feel uneasy about this....

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

[DZJ 0]

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it," Venter told The Guardian. "That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before," he said.

Now that's interesting.

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I feel uneasy about this....

I second that.....

...and you're in violation of your face!

[shropshire 0]

Create not Evolved .... Oh fuck

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[nerdgirl 0]

Thanks for the heads up!

Implications for biosecurity community as well, e.g., syn bio.
I find Venter’s approach to the marketing of the science … interesting.

VR/Marg

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
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[SpeedRacer 1]

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Thanks for the heads up!

Implications for biosecurity community as well, e.g., syn bio.
I find Venter’s approach to the marketing of the science … interesting.

VR/Marg

I once made a virus that glowed green. It was cool.

Speed Racer
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[nerdgirl 0]

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Thanks for the heads up!

Implications for biosecurity community as well, e.g., syn bio.
I find Venter’s approach to the marketing of the science … interesting.

VR/Marg

I once made a virus that glowed green. It was cool.

Be careful - some might be suspicious.You must remember the Wimmer syn polio "not-so-cheap stunt" (to quote Steve Block (Stanford/JASON)), yes?.

A few years ago, I was at a sponsored meeting, in which a speaker very seriously asserted that kits being sold to insert GFP in E. coli were a security threat. Sigh. Ya might be able to make a case for the 40 PhD scientists and engineers it took to make the kit 'bubba-proof.'

VR/Marg

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
Tibetan Buddhist saying

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I feel uneasy about this....

I second that.....

Third. I'm all about better living thru chemistry, but my fear here is that we create without knowing what we create. Can't remember the minimum number of genes that go into a bacteria, but I think it is big enough that it is difficult to know exactly what was coded for.

He might THINK he created a harmless bacteria, but how to be sure?

I also agree that they did not yet create life. More like a prosthetic device. They built a small part, albeit an important part, of a life form. They did not create life. When they build a "goodie" from scratch that can consume, excrete, leave offspring, and age within a predictable lifespan in which to do those things; then we can begin to consider whether or not they have created life.

Wait a minute - that sounds like a description of my laptop. Maybe we ARE living in a Matrix. Probably a Republican experiment. Get a gun and kill it. But think of the children, . . .and, and, and . . . world peace, and the UN, and wars do not kill people; capital punishment does.

Covered it all. Next thread.

Almost forgot, it was a Lower Middle class bacteria, hanging out with an admiral and a prostitute.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

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I feel uneasy about this....

I second that.....

Uh.....yeah, me too.

My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.