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Posted on 05-20-10 07:16:29 PM (last edited by Hiryuu at 05-20-10 04:20 PM) Link | Quote
IT'S ALIVE!!!

Sad thing is, this is entirely true. Ethics and religion, get your stance on. It's going to be a bumpy ride now that it's been done. Also, two major questions:

First, what happens when it escapes and runs amok? Answer: We all die horribly, cursing Venter's name.

Second, does this work cross the line where humans start playing God? Answer: We all die horribly, cursing Venter's name.


And, scene.
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Posted on 05-20-10 07:46:30 PM Link | Quote
You tell him that he and his team succeeded in building a synthetic genome out of the chemical components of DNA - A, T, C and G - transferring them into a cell in order to control how it develops and multiplies.


It seems that it's not creating a cell from scratch, but using an existing one and replacing it's DNA...

Anyways, I didn't like the "Mad scientist".
IMO, that it's a great scientific breakthrough. Those guys have worked hard to achieve it, and it can have lots of applications in real life... I think they dont deserve being showed as "mad scientists"...
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Posted on 05-20-10 08:04:53 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by dirbaio
...Anyways, I didn't like the "Mad scientist".
IMO, that it's a great scientific breakthrough. Those guys have worked hard to achieve it, and it can have lots of applications in real life... I think they dont deserve being showed as "mad scientists"...


Not saying that they shouldn't deserve the credit either but the science is called that for a reason. Religions flip at this kind of stuff.

I, for one, want to see much more of this. The ethics with how it'll be used can be debated at a later time when the inevitable greed hits just like with anything anyways.
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Posted on 05-21-10 02:17:15 AM Link | Quote
Ironically, just yesterday, John from Homestuck made human babies out of ectoplasmic goo.

I find the timing very coincidental.

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Posted on 05-21-10 02:19:50 AM Link | Quote
Who knows what we could use this technology for... we could develop cures for diseases more easily if we keep doing research like this...

It's too bad our money-grubbing government insists on wasting too much of our money on the military and homeland security instead of environmental and medical research... =(

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Posted on 05-21-10 02:41:42 AM (last edited by Metal_Man88 at 05-20-10 11:42 PM) Link | Quote
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Yeah. They ought to know what can really stop the enemy: Killer robots and sentient superbeings!

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*Sets down the science fiction books and walks away*

(And not being sarcastic, either.)

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Posted on 05-21-10 03:39:58 AM Link | Quote
We still might have some time to wait before this leads anywhere. Yes, he created a living cell with synthetically constructed DNA. However, he didn't make up the DNA or rearrange it himself or anything. This would proabably be the equivalent of deconstructing a motherboard and putting it back together. We still don't know any more about what the DNA does than before the experiment. However, it will open the gate for us to begin testing just what DNA can do. It could be a year or more before we see "scientist creates new bacteria with custom DNA that actually worked properly".

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Posted on 05-21-10 06:37:04 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Gabu
Ironically, just yesterday, John from Homestuck made human babies out of ectoplasmic goo.

I find the timing very coincidental.


I'm convinced that AH hass the psychic powers to predict the future.
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Posted on 05-21-10 12:52:17 PM Link | Quote
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So, this is kinda like... ROM hacking.

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Posted on 06-01-10 05:26:23 AM Link | Quote
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Yep. 1337 DNA H4X. It's that sort of thinking that's made me often consider getting into biology.

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