Artificial Life Created in The Labatory..

Dr Craig Venter, a multi-millionaire pioneer in genetics, and his team have managed to make a completely new "synthetic" life form from a mix of chemicals.

They manufactured a new chromosome from artificial DNA in a test tube, then transferred it into an empty cell and watched it multiply – the very definition of being alive.

The man-made single cell "creature", which is a modified version of one of the simplest bacteria on earth, proves that the technology works.

Dr Venter believes the organism, nicknamed Synthia, will pave the way for more complex creatures that can transform environmental waste into clean fuel, vaccinate against disease and soak up pollution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIocNOHd7A&feature=player_detailpage

His development also triggered debate over the ethics of "playing god" and the dangers the new technology could pose in terms of biological hazards and warfare.

"We are entering an era limited only by our imagination," he said announcing the research published in the journal Science....

 

now that is some crazy shit! thanks for sharing mate!

 

What great timing

 

Interesting. Now to explain how it could occur naturally would be the game changer. And answer a bunch of questions for sure.

 

Now lets make something that we can't stop/control that ruins everything.

 

Stuff like this just sketches me out.
Like said above, its kind of like playing god and IMO should be left well enough alone. Who knows what kind of repercussions there could be if something went wrong/not as expected or the tech got into the wrong hands.

Makes me think maybe there will be a zombie apocalypse!

 

Your not saying the government lies are you?

 

Creating life is easier than stopping death. "cancer" is a hydra with 10,000 heads that all look different.

 

I thought cancer was a name they slapped on something they dont know what the hell it is.

 

I smell a zombie virus brewing


But all joking aside, this is pretty cool IMO...could cure diseases or viruses before they start or get rid of them all together from what I understood! Think of the thankful families and ill people...

 

you know there is a certain gene sequence in our dna that actually tells our diffenent cells how many times they can reproduce? once they have hit their limit the reproducing gene in the cell just dies. if we were able to isolate and modify that dna code....

thats a scary thought too.


as far as the enough is enough...lets face it. there is going to be no stopping scientific research in unlocking and understanding our make up. along with the secrets of the universe understanding how we work as living creatures is the biggest mystery we face. being able to understand that as intelligent creatures is, as i see it, our destiny. and when we have reached the pinnacle of research and fully unlocked and understood how we work we will wither destroy ourselves in a spectacular fashion or figure out a way to all live forever.

 

Pretty interesting no doubt. Lots of people including myself see the down side to this. However, what about the good that can come from this? The one that stuck me was something that could clean the pollution. Us humans destroy the planet with our creations, than make something to clean it up, pretty amazing.

 

They know what cancers are

Just not how to stop them



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Fucking interesting shit

I can dig it

 

Cancer? Cure cancer? Fuck that, what we need it to cure stupidity.

 

in all honesty the last thing we need to do is cure diseases...over population will most likley be the catalyst to the destruction of the planet, or us. the last thing we need is more people as we approach the carrying capacity of the environment

 

Really dude?...................

 

Maybe with this artificial life we can terraform the Moon and send people there , then Mars

 

Criminals!!! Lets clean up earth and free up some space! I'm sick of sharing my air with those degenerates lmfao!

 

Life is created everyday, we can watch it happen.