'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists

[RuleBritannia]

[JimC]

He has a neatly trimmed pepper and salt beard...

Of course he's brilliant!

[Feck]

We have known for ages that the DNA of a cell can be removed and replaced (remember Dolly ) we have also been able to both sequence DNA (rna ) and copy it.
I fail to see why this news merits the attention that the media has given it !

Cue headlines about playing God etc This is just like when the news papers announced that science had defeated age ,because somebody tacked a few extra Telomeres to the genome of a nematode and they lived to twice their normal age .



??????? Has anyone mentioned Frankenstein yet ?????

[JimC]

We have known for ages that the DNA of a cell can be removed and replaced (remember Dolly ) we have also been able to both sequence DNA (rna ) and copy it.
I fail to see why this news merits the attention that the media has given it !

Cue headlines about playing God etc This is just like when the news papers announced that science had defeated age ,because somebody tacked a few extra Telomeres to the genome of a nematode and they lived to twice their normal age .



??????? Has anyone mentioned Frankenstein yet ?????

Frankenstein (a clip) was on the news piece here last night!

[Feck]

We have known for ages that the DNA of a cell can be removed and replaced (remember Dolly ) we have also been able to both sequence DNA (rna ) and copy it.
I fail to see why this news merits the attention that the media has given it !

Cue headlines about playing God etc This is just like when the news papers announced that science had defeated age ,because somebody tacked a few extra Telomeres to the genome of a nematode and they lived to twice their normal age .



??????? Has anyone mentioned Frankenstein yet ?????

Frankenstein (a clip) was on the news piece here last night!

Oh what A fucking surprise ! They don't play Dr Strangelove everytime we bomb some body back to the stone age do they ?
You point out to the man in the street that mould resistant crops will mean their food is not covered in fungicide and some moron tabloid type says we are playing with God's creation . I fucking hope they choke on a banana!


AND they can tell the Parents of every baby born with gross genetic abnormalities that we could have done something (or at least spotted it early)
but we didn't want to "play God " FUCKING LUDDITE SCUM .

[GenesForLife]

We have known for ages that the DNA of a cell can be removed and replaced (remember Dolly ) we have also been able to both sequence DNA (rna ) and copy it.
I fail to see why this news merits the attention that the media has given it !

Cue headlines about playing God etc This is just like when the news papers announced that science had defeated age ,because somebody tacked a few extra Telomeres to the genome of a nematode and they lived to twice their normal age .



??????? Has anyone mentioned Frankenstein yet ?????

Well, the breakthrough here was that the genome they put in later was chemically synthesized , in other words, this is working proof that instead of doing shoddy cut and paste jobs with available vectors, we can now build high quality stuff using chemical nucleosynthesis alone, I like the idea. Another thing to note was that unlike Eukaryotic cells, which have a nucleus, bacteria don't, so the removal of resident DNA would have been a more cumbersome process.

[natselrox]

We have known for ages that the DNA of a cell can be removed and replaced (remember Dolly ) we have also been able to both sequence DNA (rna ) and copy it.
I fail to see why this news merits the attention that the media has given it !

Cue headlines about playing God etc This is just like when the news papers announced that science had defeated age ,because somebody tacked a few extra Telomeres to the genome of a nematode and they lived to twice their normal age .



??????? Has anyone mentioned Frankenstein yet ?????

Well, the breakthrough here was that the genome they put in later was chemically synthesized , in other words, this is working proof that instead of doing shoddy cut and paste jobs with available vectors, we can now build high quality stuff using chemical nucleosynthesis alone, I like the idea. Another thing to note was that unlike Eukaryotic cells, which have a nucleus, bacteria don't, so the removal of resident DNA would have been a more cumbersome process.

Don't forget the humble Mr. Yeast.

[JimC]

We have known for ages that the DNA of a cell can be removed and replaced (remember Dolly ) we have also been able to both sequence DNA (rna ) and copy it.
I fail to see why this news merits the attention that the media has given it !

Cue headlines about playing God etc This is just like when the news papers announced that science had defeated age ,because somebody tacked a few extra Telomeres to the genome of a nematode and they lived to twice their normal age .



??????? Has anyone mentioned Frankenstein yet ?????

Well, the breakthrough here was that the genome they put in later was chemically synthesized , in other words, this is working proof that instead of doing shoddy cut and paste jobs with available vectors, we can now build high quality stuff using chemical nucleosynthesis alone, I like the idea. Another thing to note was that unlike Eukaryotic cells, which have a nucleus, bacteria don't, so the removal of resident DNA would have been a more cumbersome process.

And a eukaryotic nucleus and asscociated chromosomes is a complex beast - synthesising and constructing a working nucleus from scratch would be nano-engineering at a very high level indeed.

In comparison, bacterial plasmids are simple, and relatively well understood in the context of adding foreign genes to bacteria.

I would just like to add that within the ludicrous hysteria, there is a valid point lurking. The potential for bio-warfare extension or accidental release of artificial prokaryotes is real, and needs to be taken seiously via the appropriate professional protocols.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

The bacterium is a life form too! Stop this cruelty NOW!

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Elsewhere, some said "It's not natural"
To which I replied "That's right, it's synthetic."