1 posted on
05/20/2010 10:51:46 AM PDT by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
2 posted on
05/20/2010 10:52:51 AM PDT by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Steelfish
I hate it when synthetic DNA starts controlling my cells, it always feels weird.
3 posted on
05/20/2010 10:54:06 AM PDT by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
To: Steelfish
Here's another FR thread on this from a different source:
CLICK.
Evidently, these fellows used pre-existing bits of DNA; so much for their "synthesis"...
4 posted on
05/20/2010 10:54:14 AM PDT by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: Steelfish
Trying to be like God, Satan tried it and look what happened to him!
5 posted on
05/20/2010 10:57:34 AM PDT by
ForAmerica
(Strong Christian Conservative Black Man!)
To: Steelfish
Can they Manufacture some sythetic Spines for the GOP?
9 posted on
05/20/2010 10:58:19 AM PDT by
GraceG
To: Steelfish
Nah, this is about the equivalent of putting a new BIOS in complete motherboard. Didn’t replicate the I/O processors or the network.
10 posted on
05/20/2010 10:58:43 AM PDT by
glorgau
To: Steelfish
11 posted on
05/20/2010 10:58:46 AM PDT by
nina0113
To: Steelfish
Just read this from another newspaper too and seems like over zealous hype. They have not created new life, they had to use an already ‘alive’ bacterium to put their new DNA into. But the media so eager to show that life could happen by accident will jump at any straw.
14 posted on
05/20/2010 11:00:28 AM PDT by
battousai
(The mainstream media; as honest as the French are clean.)
To: Steelfish
“hope eventually to design bacterial cells that will produce medicines and fuels and even absorb greenhouse gases.”
We already have organisms that do that. They are called “plants.” Just how dim is the Beeb audience anyway?
18 posted on
05/20/2010 11:05:19 AM PDT by
atomic conspiracy
(Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
To: Steelfish; Lurker
>The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell. If they used C/C++ I'm going to laugh my ass off when they realize there's a memory-leak...
;)
19 posted on
05/20/2010 11:08:06 AM PDT by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Steelfish
“and even absorb greenhouse gases”
Yeah, let’s make a synthetic bacteria that gobbles up all the CO2! That will stop global warming (or climate change or whatever)!
Of course, it would also kill almost all life on Earth, but hey, it’s for the CHILDREN!
As another poster said, this will end well...
22 posted on
05/20/2010 11:11:17 AM PDT by
piytar
(Ammo is hard to find! Bought some lately? Please share where at www.ammo-finder.com)
To: Steelfish
If true, this may affirm Intelligent Design.
23 posted on
05/20/2010 11:13:24 AM PDT by
Theo
(May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
To: Steelfish
I’ve seen this movie before - I Am Legend.
To: Steelfish
What is the bacteria’s inception date???
25 posted on
05/20/2010 11:24:23 AM PDT by
rednesss
(fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
To: Steelfish
And this will be how they kill off over 5 billion people.
26 posted on
05/20/2010 11:25:33 AM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Steelfish
Synthetic life? Make your own universe first, and then I will be impressed.
--God
33 posted on
05/20/2010 12:01:28 PM PDT by
backwoods-engineer
("It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." --Jefferson)
To: Steelfish
Will they call it abominatia frankensteinis?
34 posted on
05/20/2010 12:03:19 PM PDT by
BuffaloJack
(Comrade O has to go.)
To: Steelfish
![](http://geoffgeoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/battlestar_galactica_last_supper2.jpg)
All of this has happened before. It will happen again.
35 posted on
05/20/2010 12:04:17 PM PDT by
rintense
To: Steelfish
Aw, come back and brag about it when you don’t need a “host cell”.
37 posted on
05/20/2010 1:13:48 PM PDT by
GingisK
To: Steelfish
Overstated headline, but cool nonetheless!
38 posted on
05/20/2010 2:00:42 PM PDT by
Abin Sur
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