Scientist creates life

[Skud]

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...0836-1,00.html

"We're basically getting new life out of the computer," Venter says. "We started with a genetic code in the computer, wrote the 'software,' put it into the cell and transformed it biologically into a new species. We're still stunned by it as a concept."

With Venter's breakthrough it's now possible to splice and snap together genetic material to create a Legoland's worth of new genetic combinations. Ideally, some of these would have robust industrial purposes, such as manufacturing bacteria that can churn out valuable vaccine components to shorten production times during an epidemic, or co-opting organisms such as algae to pump out new sources of biofuel-based energy.

Very interesting. I see some positive aspects...and then I see other aspects that remind me of the 2012 doomsayers...or "The Stand" by Steven King.

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You know all those movies that come out like Day of the Dead. I really hate those type of flicks. But this is headed in the same direction soon as the gubment confiscates it and does their own thing trying to create a new weapon of bionic soldiers.

[Trooper110]

Sign me up for some gene tailoring!

[Pumpkin_Jack]

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...0836-1,00.html



Very interesting. I see some positive aspects...and then I see other aspects that remind me of the 2012 doomsayers...or "The Stand" by Steven King.

This is going to make it so parents can control hair color, eye color ect of kids if we can master it. Thats where i see the closest practicle application of this.

[Apache Warrior]

Anyone who is a parent has created life.
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