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On The Verge Of Artificial Life

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On The Verge Of Artificial Life Old Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:50:41 AM #74041 Perm Link
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If you are one of those people that gets scared about artificial life (meaning that humanity creates a new biological organism), you might want to start counting your days. <a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/biologists-on-t.html">Science is really close to producing the first chemical compound to artificial life jump</a>. This is big.

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Protocellular work is even more radical than the other field trying to create artifical life: synthetic biology. Even J. Craig Venter's work to build an artificial bacterium with the smallest number of genes necessary to live takes current life forms as a template. Protocell researchers are trying to design a completely novel form of life that humans have never seen and that may never have existed.

Over the summer, Szostak's team published major papers in the journals Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that go a long way towards showing that this isn't just an idea and that his lab will be the first to create artificial life -- and that it will happen soon.


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(No Title) Old Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:16:04 AM #74049 Perm Link
This is truely big, But what can we apply this too besides Showing off?
Possible bio warefare applications, as well.
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(No Title) Old Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:33:46 AM #74052 Perm Link
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Well, the stupid little dudes might end up out producing and evolving faster than anything and then we're all screwed!

At least, that's what the morons will say (just like the LHC).

2014 is going to be a good year. More content, more streamlining. Be a part of history!
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(No Title) Old Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:38:09 AM #74054 Perm Link
But we have guns Smile
For percautions, we might just want to produce a few, see how they react in a far out location, find out how they react to certain situations (IE: Water, Fire cold Hot. Etc...)
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