First artificial lifeform

[Dr Gregg]

We could make a movie about it.
Instead of Zombieland, it could be Liberalland. Grab your twinkies now!

Really?

Y'all couldn't leave the politics out of this?

I'm disappointed, Luissa.

Sure. How many abortions per year are performed worldwide?

How many single-parent children are brought into this world every year?

How many children are starving in 3rd world countries?

Yet billions have been spent on emulating what we learned how to do in the backseat of Dad's car. This ranks up there with creating a black hole and/or the rainforest in Iowa that got major pork.

How many trillions of dollars in debt are we again?

More idiocy from Gunny that doesn't know shit about anything scientific. There is a plethora of things that can be done using these organisms, or even modifying natural organism. Manipulate organisms to produce insulin, which used to be collected from pigs and be really expensive. Now you can just grow bacteria in bulk and they make the insulin, or any protein we want them. You see the rise of biotechnology and products to cure human disease. There are organisms that can essentially eat oil when you have spills. Many are engineering bacteria to produce hydrogen a source of fuel. THere are so many applications in genetic engineering, the skies the limit

 

[Dr Gregg]

Sure. How many abortions per year are performed worldwide?

How many single-parent children are brought into this world every year?

How many children are starving in 3rd world countries?

Yet billions have been spent on emulating what we learned how to do in the backseat of Dad's car. This ranks up there with creating a black hole and/or the rainforest in Iowa that got major pork.

How many trillions of dollars in debt are we again?

Gunny, I think you are being a bit short sighted. It doesn't seem like such a leap to me from stem cells that morph into whatever body part is broken to cures for Alzheimer's Disease, etc. using synthetic life forms.

And anyway, pure science has value. As does any creative human endeavor.

Stem cells are as much conjecture as your hypothesis in regard to creating life. Both STILL ignore the fact we already KNOW how to create life, and we're trillions of dollars in debt while some eggheads are figuring out at taxpayer expense what they should have learned to do in the back seat at the drive-in DECADES ago.

You last 2 sentences presumes a stance I have not taken.

Man, you are just so ignorant, its such a joke. Leave the science to the smart people, you can just sit back, be a complete moron, and benefit from the results of all this great science.

Do you know how much money new technologies bring to this country? How many jobs? the biotechnology industry over the past 30 years has exploded proving a huge sector of our economy, tons of jobs, and lots and lots of money being made. more than pays for the money put towards research.

 

[eagleseven]

Sure. How many abortions per year are performed worldwide?

How many single-parent children are brought into this world every year?

How many children are starving in 3rd world countries?

Yet billions have been spent on emulating what we learned how to do in the backseat of Dad's car. This ranks up there with creating a black hole and/or the rainforest in Iowa that got major pork.

How many trillions of dollars in debt are we again?

You forgot to mention the price of beans in China.

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Why does this advancement matter? Because it enables the construction of extremely efficient bio-reactors, which assemble complex compounds out of cheap elements. This will revolutionize our chemical, fossil fuel (read: oil), and biotechnology industries.

People initially doubted the usefulness of the internet. This is no different.

Artificial lifeforms will have the same economic benefit as the steam engine did in Britain. If we do not continue to develop this technology, the countries that do will surpass us economically and technologically.

 

[eagleseven]

Is it self replicating?

If it is, then it is truly a new lifeform, and that truly is big news.

Yes, the newly-constructed cell replicated itself several billion times on the agar plate.

The new bacteria replicated over a billion times, producing copies that contained and were controlled by the constructed, synthetic DNA.

"This is the first time any synthetic DNA has been in complete control of a cell," said Dr Venter.

 

[JBeukema]

Now we just need to learn how to make our own dirt, and we'll tie the score with God...

 

[Dr Gregg]

Hey Gunny, what do you think helped make this country the richest and most successful country in the world? Have the strongest military in the world? our innovation, our huge technological advances that fuel entire industries, create jobs, provide gov't revenue, and makes many people rich.

 

[Madeline]

BBC News - 'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists

Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell.

The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell.

The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species "dictated" by the synthetic DNA.

The advance, published in Science, has been hailed as a scientific landmark, but critics say there are dangers posed by synthetic organisms.

The researchers hope eventually to design bacterial cells that will produce medicines and fuels and even absorb greenhouse gases.

Just for the record, I fucking called it!

Synthetic cells...once a sci-fi fantasy, now reality!

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How big is this? This is "the first automobile" big." This is "the first personal computer" big.


In the next few decades, synthetic lifeforms will revolutionize our world.

Is it self replicating?

If it is, then it is truly a new lifeform, and that truly is big news

If it is merely a functional cell, then it's still big news, but it is not yet a truly new lifeform.

Here's a thumbnail of our current definition for "life"

Life - the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.

source

editec, not to be a witless dumb ass, but isn't life distinguishable from nonlife because life decays after death?

 

[Madeline]

Now we just need to learn how to make our own dirt, and we'll tie the score with God...

No, what we need to invent to tie up with The Creator is a fun, misery-making transformative experience to rival human SEX.

Even I can make dirt. I do it all the time.

 

[JBeukema]

No, what we need to invent to tie up with The Creator is a fun, misery-making transformative experience to rival human SEX.

Done and done

 

[Dante]

BBC News - 'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists

Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell.

The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell.

The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species "dictated" by the synthetic DNA.

The advance, published in Science, has been hailed as a scientific landmark, but critics say there are dangers posed by synthetic organisms.

The researchers hope eventually to design bacterial cells that will produce medicines and fuels and even absorb greenhouse gases.

Just for the record, I fucking called it!

Synthetic cells...once a sci-fi fantasy, now reality!

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How big is this? This is "the first automobile" big." This is "the first personal computer" big.


In the next few decades, synthetic lifeforms will revolutionize our world.

So Democrats have found a way to get more votes, huh?

 

[Dante]

Now we just need to learn how to make our own dirt, and we'll tie the score with God...

We do make our own dirt. It's called Southern Cracker