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Scientists Built an Artificial Cell That Grows And Divides Like a Natural One
Science Alert ^ | 29 MARCH 2021 | PETER DOCKRILL

Posted on 03/29/2021 12:31:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin

In a new first for genetic engineering, scientists have developed a single-celled synthetic organism that grows and divides much like a normal cell, mimicking aspects of the cell division cycle that underlies and generates healthy living cellular life.

The achievement, demonstrated in an engineered unicellular bacteria-like life form called JCVI-syn3A, is the result of decades of genomic sequencing and analysis by scientists, exploring the roles individual genes play inside living creatures.

This organism, called JCVI-syn3.0, only possessed 473 genes in total – shorter than any known self-sustaining, living organism in the natural world.

But while JCVI-syn3.0's miniaturized genetic toolkit enabled it to perpetuate itself via cell division, it did so in an unusual way, producing "striking morphological variation" in the new cells it created, which emerged in a variety of different shapes and sizes.

Now, members of the same research team have figured out a way to prevent these strange morphologies from occurring, with a newly modified variant of JCVI-syn3.0, known as JCVI-syn3A.

With the addition of 19 genes not present in JCVI-syn3.0, the newfangled JCVI-syn3A is able to undergo cell division in a more normal-looking, consistent way, with significantly less morphological variation than JCVI-syn3.0 exhibited.

Despite the several years of work behind the achievement, there's still a huge amount of mystery wrapped up in these genes.

For example, while JCVI-syn3A features 19 new genes, only 7 genes are thought to play a role in making its cell division processes run in a more regular fashion. And of those seven, only two genes – called ftsZ and sepF – have had their functions identified.

Quite how the other five necessarily contribute to JCVI-syn3A's morphological consistency remains unknown, but one thing is certain: this tiny genome now represents the new standard

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: gmo; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; plannedemic
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1 posted on 03/29/2021 12:31:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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And this is how we get The Blob.


2 posted on 03/29/2021 12:32:32 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
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To: BenLurkin

Playing G-d.

G-d can control His creation. Humans are not gods and will not long control theirs.


3 posted on 03/29/2021 12:37:35 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: BenLurkin

You want Synths? Because that is how you get Synths.


4 posted on 03/29/2021 12:39:08 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: BenLurkin

What could possibly go wrong ???


5 posted on 03/29/2021 12:40:45 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: BenLurkin

Actually not. This is a modified code placed into a living cell. Not a cell created from scratch. The level of complexity difference is not even calculatable. For example take a functioning cell wall, there has never been a functioning cell wall created. There have been claims of such, but when reviewed are found to be complete nonsense.


6 posted on 03/29/2021 12:42:02 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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7 posted on 03/29/2021 12:42:31 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Lmo56

What could possibly go wrong ???
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Who knows. Fauci should give samples of this artificial organism to the ChiCom’s Wuhan biological lab to find out. Hell, they may try some “gain of function” on it.


8 posted on 03/29/2021 12:44:34 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: BenLurkin

morphological variation = evolution

They have determined how to stop the organism from evolving


9 posted on 03/29/2021 12:45:22 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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10 posted on 03/29/2021 12:48:01 PM PDT by katana
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To: RandallFlagg

Yup.


11 posted on 03/29/2021 12:52:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Trump stands with us to preserve the Republic. Biden kneels with those wanting to burn it all down.)
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To: katana

Just wait until the Mad Doctor meets with Elsa Lancaster.
She’s a very Freaky Girl!


12 posted on 03/29/2021 12:52:58 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: RandallFlagg
And this is how we get The Blob.

Exactly!

If it can merge with living cells we'll have The Blob and The Thing combined (The BlobThing?)

13 posted on 03/29/2021 12:55:53 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin

We have reached the point where our ability to produce technology has far outstripped our wisdom in using it.

This could so backfire....


14 posted on 03/29/2021 12:58:48 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: RandallFlagg

I was going to say, “The Thing”.


15 posted on 03/29/2021 1:00:23 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing);)
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To: BenLurkin

Funny. It only took Hod an instant.


16 posted on 03/29/2021 1:00:49 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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God. I don’t know who Hod is (except maybe the misspelling genie that lives in my finger.)


17 posted on 03/29/2021 1:02:22 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: T.B. Yoits
Or even worse....







"You may never have guests over again!"
18 posted on 03/29/2021 1:04:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

ARM/RISC minimal instruction set for genetics?


19 posted on 03/29/2021 1:14:52 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: BenLurkin

Tinker toys...nothing to do with actual life..


20 posted on 03/29/2021 1:19:09 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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