Scienctist creates first synthetic living Cell

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Scienctist creates first synthetic living Cell

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_ ... 132762.stm
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Expect media outlet Fails will follow thick and fast. The BBC has already gone with "Scientists make 'artificial life'". It's like Ida all over again.
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Interesting fodder for a science fiction novel!!
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Chalk another one up for intelligent designers again.. Scientists (intelligent designers) create the first synthetic living cell.. Nature can NOT do it by itself folks... ;)
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This isn't creating artificial life from scratch like the supposed first cell of abiogenesis.
"As soon as this new software goes into the cell, the cell reads [it] and converts into the species specified in that genetic code."
They are just swapping genomes. All of the enzymatic machinery is already in place. I do a very similar thing in cloning plasmids into E. Coli.
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Struntzizzle wrote:This isn't creating artificial life from scratch like the supposed first cell of abiogenesis.
"As soon as this new software goes into the cell, the cell reads [it] and converts into the species specified in that genetic code."
They are just swapping genomes. All of the enzymatic machinery is already in place. I do a very similar thing in cloning plasmids into E. Coli.
Thanks for the insight there Struntzizzle..
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Gman wrote:
Struntzizzle wrote:This isn't creating artificial life from scratch like the supposed first cell of abiogenesis.
"As soon as this new software goes into the cell, the cell reads [it] and converts into the species specified in that genetic code."
They are just swapping genomes. All of the enzymatic machinery is already in place. I do a very similar thing in cloning plasmids into E. Coli.
Thanks for the insight there Struntzizzle..
And you clone E. Coli? :esurprised: On God's green earth, why? Don't we have enough out there?
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Byblos wrote:
Gman wrote:
Struntzizzle wrote:This isn't creating artificial life from scratch like the supposed first cell of abiogenesis.
"As soon as this new software goes into the cell, the cell reads [it] and converts into the species specified in that genetic code."
They are just swapping genomes. All of the enzymatic machinery is already in place. I do a very similar thing in cloning plasmids into E. Coli.
Thanks for the insight there Struntzizzle..
And you clone E. Coli? :esurprised: On God's green earth, why? Don't we have enough out there?
Most strains of E. coli aren't harmful to humans. They're commonly used in labs as they're so well characterised (a bit like mice in that sense).
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I use them in high school labs!!
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