Scientists Create First Synthetic Cell

[Darkmatter]

HISTORY IN THE MAKING

[phee]

I heard about this.... its very cool and scary and coolscary....

Kind of bladerunner like.

[Darkmatter]

I heard about this.... its very cool and scary and coolscary....

Kind of bladerunner like.

Yeah I think the words they used to desribe it were: "Had the potential for great promise and great peril"

Could even be used to create more lethal viruses.

[phee]

Yeah I think the words they used to desribe it were: "Had the potential for great promise and great peril"

Could even be used to create more lethal viruses.

Its one of those things where I again realize we are living in science fiction.... Stuff happens in books and then poof it is all around us.

[Darkmatter]

Its one of those things where I again realize we are living in science fiction.... Stuff happens in books and then poof it is all around us.

Always man , always.

Like when Jules Verne wrote about rocketships, computers, and cars in the 1800's.

[phee]

Always man , always.

Like when Jules Verne wrote about rocketships, computers, and cars in the 1800's.

Heck even Da Vinci inventing helicopters.

[Darkmatter]

Heck even Da Vinci inventing helicopters.

OMG how did I forget him!?

+1

[Rev.Reverence]

GREAT...now, we can skip the part where we become cyborgs, & we can be taken over by a completely synthetic lifeform!

[Destroit]

So...instead of gene splicing we just straight up made synthetic genetic code and inserted it? Meh. The building blocks were already here on earth, we didn't REALLY make something new...we just assembled what was already left for us into something that was already here. But the part about renegade viruses and impact on the environment is worrisome. We're just now figuring out that GMOs are destroying our genes, antibiotics and hormones in livestock are fucking us up, and certain pesticides are taking out entire sectors of the ecosystem. The extent of this damage is not yet fully realized as this only began a few generations ago.

Not to bring myself up and all (), but much like with Chernobyl the worst is yet to come over time.

So...instead of gene splicing we just straight up made synthetic genetic code and inserted it? Meh. The building blocks were already here on earth, we didn't REALLY make something new...we just assembled what was already left for us into something that was already here. But the part about renegade viruses and impact on the environment is worrisome. We're just now figuring out that GMOs are destroying our genes, antibiotics and hormones in livestock are fucking us up, and certain pesticides are taking out entire sectors of the ecosystem. The extent of this damage is not yet fully realized as this only began a few generations ago.

Not to bring myself up and all (), but much like with Chernobyl the worst is yet to come over time.

[Epic_Fail_Guy]

Woot! This is one step closer to the zombie outbreak I am destined to fight!

[phee]

Woot! This is one step closer to the zombie outbreak I am destined to fight!

bah you want that just start moving towards Ohio.

[kat (1)]

GREAT...now, we can skip the part where we become cyborgs, & we can be taken over by a completely synthetic lifeform!

Hell to the yeah!!!!

[phee]

Hell to the yeah!!!!

I want a Nexus 6 to have my memories implanted!

[StormKnight (1)]

I want a Nexus 6 to have my memories implanted!

I want a Nexus 6 that looks like....well, you know who.

[phee]

I want a Nexus 6 that looks like....well, you know who.

[StormKnight (1)]

Damned mind-reader.

Give her hardwiring to be totally into Hawaiian doctors, and I would be set.

I will just keep a few Nexus 6 clones of myself in storage to transfer my mind into every few years. StormKnight the Immortal. *evil cackle*

[Joey Deadcat]

Worse comes to worse, though, I'm throwing on my black cowboy hat, my leather, and get myself a chainsaw and a shotgun.

[Soulrev]

Creepy as fuck in an end-of-the-world kind of way but - cool!

[Msterbeau]

Approved.

[aequorea]

How are GMOs destroying our genes?

I agree that they didn't actually *create* anything new. It's a triumph of biotech lab techniques, but not like creating a unique multicellular organism.

So...instead of gene splicing we just straight up made synthetic genetic code and inserted it? Meh. The building blocks were already here on earth, we didn't REALLY make something new...we just assembled what was already left for us into something that was already here. But the part about renegade viruses and impact on the environment is worrisome. We're just now figuring out that GMOs are destroying our genes, antibiotics and hormones in livestock are fucking us up, and certain pesticides are taking out entire sectors of the ecosystem. The extent of this damage is not yet fully realized as this only began a few generations ago.

Not to bring myself up and all (), but much like with Chernobyl the worst is yet to come over time.