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Scientists create first living organism containing artificial DNA
FOX News ^ | May 8, 2014 | The Wall Street Journal

Posted on 05/08/2014 7:51:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"By one recent estimate, the market for biologic and protein-based therapies is expected to reach $165 billion a year by 2018.

Unfortunately due to ObamaCare, no one will able to afford any new therapies that might come from this. So I'm wondering where is this $165 billion coming from?

BTW, this is the sort of new medical advance that ObamaCare is designed to derail. Under Obama care people seriously ill are supposed to die --- not get lifesaving treatment.

21 posted on 05/08/2014 8:48:43 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They better be keeping a very tight lid on this place because if they let something dangerously weird out that threatens the health of humans and the planet as a whole, the entire would will hunt them down and torture them to death. They probably get the Kaddaffi treatment...death by crowbar.

And they damn well better know it.

22 posted on 05/08/2014 8:50:24 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Rebelbase
What could possibly go wrong?

Why nothing, nothing at all.

23 posted on 05/08/2014 9:15:29 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
...with few ill effects

How "few"? What sort of "ill effects"?

24 posted on 05/08/2014 9:24:45 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Scientists create first living organism……..

Did they create the cell membrane, the lysosomes, the endoplasmic reticulum, the golgi apparatus, the nuclear membrane, the cytoplasm., or any of the intracellular organelles without which a cell will not survive?

25 posted on 05/08/2014 9:29:03 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Cementjungle

...and the other 588 million turned into dark seekers, and they got hungry and then they killed and fed on everybody.


26 posted on 05/08/2014 9:44:45 PM PDT by Selene
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27 posted on 05/08/2014 10:59:59 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Texas Songwriter

No. They did some gene splicing into an already living cell. I guess the new twist is that the inserted gene was synthetic.


28 posted on 05/09/2014 3:59:27 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Free Vulcan
Now which alien from Star Trek was she again?

Wrong series. She's a sleestak from Land of the Lost. Not an alien at all. An evolved reptile.

29 posted on 05/09/2014 4:09:16 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Free Vulcan
Yeah, there’s no way this technology won’t be abused.

While I tend to agree that what we do with DNA and other sciences, I don't think that "...there’s no way this technology won’t be abused." is a good argument - it's exactly what the Left tells us when they say they need to control our guns and other parts of our lives.

30 posted on 05/09/2014 4:40:06 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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This kind of tech could ultimately be used in nanobots, bots that could be injected as some sort of marker and control mechanism within the human body. Something that could essentially infect your entire system, hijack and take over your body systems and modify their function to achieve other purposes.

If you can inject a bot with artificial DNA that’s both scannable and able to receive radio signals within the human body, you got something that could be used for some very ugly purposes. Particularly if you can use it to make that bot replicate.

You get out of line, the bot gets a signal and starts doing very nasty things to you. That assume it won’t control you to the point where you even have a choice in the matter. We are talking Borg like tech here.


31 posted on 05/09/2014 5:40:04 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: jsanders2001

That was the movie I was thinking of


32 posted on 05/09/2014 6:00:24 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Free Vulcan

You’re thinking “V”...


33 posted on 05/09/2014 6:03:56 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Define “artificial DNA”. Did they create the DNA from scratch or use existing DNA to start theirs?


34 posted on 05/09/2014 6:07:01 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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