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Thread: News item: First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell |
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Hello WCG
I came across this news article: ROCKVILLE, Md. and SAN DIEGO, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplasma mycoides genome. The synthetic cell is called Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 and is the proof of principle that genomes can be designed in the computer, chemically made in the laboratory and transplanted into a recipient cell to produce a new self-replicating cell controlled only by the synthetic genome. More on: http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1868529/f...ndex.html?source=r_health For the response of the Church, see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_re_...lic_church_synthetic_cell The power to create life is both exciting and frightening. In the right hands, the knowledge could lead to novel solutions to existing problems that benefits humankind. In the wrong hands, humankind may be doomed. ; |
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Sekerob
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Saw that and read about this months ago what these scientists were up to and am most unhappy with this level of toying with nature. Maybe 2012 will still be the misread end... if this get's loose in the wild. Oil eating bacteria... what if they get into the underground reservoirs? What if they get under your skin?
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The power to create life is both exciting and frightening. In the right hands, the knowledge could lead to novel solutions to existing problems that benefits humankind. In the wrong hands, humankind may be doomed. Nope just frightening. The idea that somehow radical new technologies can be somehow limited to 'the right hands' is physically impossible, socially irresponsible and inevitably doomed.; Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd (sic) the tendency or certainty of corruption by full authority. Lord Acton, 1887 |
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