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Elmore Furth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 01:01 PM
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'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists
I've seen the movie 'Species' and as I recall, humans become lunch.










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 researchers copied an existing bacterial genome. They sequenced its genetic code and then used "synthesis machines" to chemically construct a copy.

Dr Venter told BBC News: "We've now been able to take our synthetic chromosome and transplant it into a recipient cell - a different organism.

'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 01:02 PM
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1. a dangerous road to go down
fascinating but
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dmallind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 01:05 PM
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3. Why? Did organ transplants lead to Frankenstein's monsters? NT
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 01:56 PM
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5. Transplanted Organs Tend Not To...
leave their hosts and live freely in the environment. In the words of the esteemed, fictitious, Dr. Ian Malcom:

"If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territory, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously"


FSH
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:17 AM
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8. Yeah I have to wear my armor
from those RAMPAGING CELL LINES every time I go into my lab! Jeezus fucking christ. Any other anti-science fiction writers you want to quote? Ayn Rand maybe!
Michael Crichton was citied as PROOF that Global Warming doesn't exist by the Right wing btw...:banghead:
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 01:41 PM
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11. Not really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OMLSs8t1ng
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 01:04 PM
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2. cool. nt
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 01:07 PM
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4. Does it feed on a mixture of crude oil and salt water? nt
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 01:57 PM
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6. Nope, Bone Marrow. -NT-
FSH
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 02:04 PM
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7. This is a more accurate headline than the Times headline in LBN.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7132299.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 02:47 PM
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12. Panic! Panic! Panic! Panic! Panic! Panic! Panic! Panic!
Oh, science "journalism" and the emoting it inspires...
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:32 PM
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13. -1 on the scaremongering pics.
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