[Joe Brower]

"They used 4 different strands of pre-existing DNA to do this. They did not create the "life" from scratch. What a huge misrepresentation."

I didn't see this bit. Yes, that makes their "synthesis" a lot less than pure.

[TalonDJ]

Yes, that makes their "synthesis" a lot less than pure.

That is one way to put it. This is like someone swapping the stearing wheel on their car for a store bought one that they painted by hand and then claiming they built the whole car from nothing but iron ore and crude oil.

[Moonman62]

"They used 4 different strands of pre-existing DNA to do this. They did not create the "life" from scratch. What a huge misrepresentation."

I didn't see this bit. Yes, that makes their "synthesis" a lot less than pure.

If you read the article linked in post #17 you'll see that the 1000 unit strands that were "stitched" together were created from scratch. There were about a thousand of these strands since the total base pairs put together were about a million.