[Rebelbase]

What could possibly go wrong?

[JoeProBono]

[KC_Lion]

Does this Unit Have a Soul?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2bXSVQAcDI

[Fungi]

Reality check. “Artificial DNA?” What is it if it is not DNA? “With few ill effects?” Please quantify the “ill effects” and what they are, how many there are, and their effect on future bacterial populations. As usual, the details are in the specifics, in the journal article, and how many will read that article, understand it, and act accordingly if it is even warranted? Spoiler alert. I'm in trouble again.

[MV=PY]

And here it is!

[Free Vulcan]

Yeah, there’s no way this technology won’t be abused.

[ClearCase_guy]

[GeronL]

I saw a movie where this couple created a new life form and raised it like it was their child, it was cute at first but it ended up eating “daddy” and others.

[Lmo56]

Just because you can - doesn’t mean you should ...

Think the explorers to the New World that carried European diseases. The natives had no natural immunity. Hundreds of thousands - if not millions died.

Now, you introduce an organism that has DNA that has never been seen on earth ???

Sheesh !!!

[cookcounty]

"the scientists said they created two additions to the normal genetic code..........."

The headline made it sound like the DNA contained actual information.

....so they created a bit of junk DNA, 1.e., (apparently) innocuous gibberish. Oh wow.

[FatherofFive]

I always thought this was how cloning would work. just copy the DNA of what you want.

[StormEye]

"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.

[Mariner]

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.

[Cementjungle]

...with few ill effects

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

[Texas Songwriter]

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?

[CodeToad]

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