Life Created in Lab

Yes, I watched part of 'charlie rose' tonight, the fellow
who is responsible along with other scientists was explaining the discovery, which took 15 years. and
it is just baby steps toward what they are actually trying
to discover.
It has to happen, can't stop discovery, the human person
has always been so curios, and will always learn and
discover and research, so go for it, there will be much
good come from it, and whatever possibile bad, has to
be controlled, just like most things.
Once something like this is discovered/learned, it can't
be undiscovered/unlearned.

Oh Goody! Goody! Artificial life. Could on day compete with the other artificial intelligence that is presently, at least in its own mind, the top of the evolutionary ladder. Evolution gets another kick in the pants.

Technically it's one step removed from creating life. They had to transplant the artificial genome they built into another life form. It's a great proof of concept though.

Tonington said:

Technically it's one step removed from creating life. They had to transplant the artificial genome they built into another life form. It's a great proof of concept though.

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Isn't that kinda like splicing frog DNA into a tomato. You end up with GM cells. Is Monsanto behind this? Pecker heads are trying to create a Roundup resistant human aren't they? Somewhere there is probably some fringe group animal or vegetable rights group planning to blow up their labs. (secretly crosses fingers!)

No, it's not like splicing DNA from one animal into another, because this DNA genome was made synthetically. I say it's one step removed from creating life because they still needed a living thing to serve as the "template" for their DNA to begin replicating inside of. A frog genome spliced into a tomatoe is still DNA made by frog replication, translation, expression, etc, the good ole fashioned way.

What happened to the other thread on this issue?

I found it:

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/spirituality-philosophy/92713-god-lost-exclusive-rights-make.html

Tonington said:

No, it's not like splicing DNA from one animal into another, because this DNA genome was made synthetically. I say it's one step removed from creating life because they still needed a living thing to serve as the "template" for their DNA to begin replicating inside of. A frog genome spliced into a tomatoe is still DNA made by frog replication, translation, expression, etc, the good ole fashioned way.

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Yeah, I posted a link to that explanation in the original thread on this subject.

Transhuman trash.