I read this: Life to order: Man-made organisms will be here in four months, say biologists | Mail Online
and I understand and appreciate the potential benefits...
But then I begin thinking, what if?
Are we tinkering with Pandora's box?
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I read this: Life to order: Man-made organisms will be here in four months, say biologists | Mail Online
and I understand and appreciate the potential benefits...
But then I begin thinking, what if?
Are we tinkering with Pandora's box?
I'm not entirely sure how this is different from the organisms that scientists have been altering for years already. From TFA, it says that they remove certain genes, it separates, and a bacteria sans the genes has been "created". Someone feel free to correct me, but I was under the impression that we'd already accomplished this.
The article claims this is the first time a manmade genome was installed and the bacteria went on to live and reproduce. As opposed to replacing one natural genome with another natural genomeQuote:
Originally Posted by Quick Orange
The result was this thing: :medvl:
Millions of them are now being trained to help evil scientitians take over the planet in 2012
They know exactky what they are doing, they are trained professionals! They've been sucessfully genetically modifying your foodstuffs for years with no ill effects......right?
EDIT:
I find this particularly comforting:
"Yesterday Dr Venter said: ‘Assuming we don’t make any errors, I think it should work and we should have the first synthetic species by the end of the year.’"
And once again the headlines is pure garbage to get attention. They did not create anything, they screwed around with what was already there.
YouTube - "It's Alive!!!"
They have been doing this since 1931
My thoughts exactly. "assuming I don't make any errors," I'll always be the perfect husband, father, lawyer, etc...oh, and a chess grandmaster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim
And create life? BS. So far, there is only one way man can create life that I know of, and it doesn't involve a lab coat (unless you're into role-play). We can futz around with life, and we can change a living thing into another living thing (here, this is what we seem to have done...almost). We created a species, perhaps, but not life.
Not really "man made life", just man altered life. It was alive before they fiddled with its genome, it was alive after. The article title uses the phrase "Man Made Organism", which is more accurate.
Man made life...isn't that something like getting married and having kids?
No, that is the end of man's life.Quote:
Originally Posted by JokiJo