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US team creates first 'synthetic life' (bacteria cell controlled by a synthetic genome)
AFP on Yahoo ^
| 5/20/10
| Jean-Louis Santini
Posted on 05/20/2010 11:45:42 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Those baby blue eyes would Dr. Mengele a tingle up his legs.
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posted on
05/20/2010 11:58:45 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Mr. Lucky
Still, if not complete it is a concrete step towards validating the Intelligent Design Theory.
Nothing like unintended consequences.
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posted on
05/20/2010 11:59:59 AM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: SpinnerWebb
I mean... what could go wrong? /sarc
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posted on
05/20/2010 12:02:07 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: SpinnerWebb
“let’s engineer one that eats hydrocarbons, and release it in the Gulf to help clean up the oil spill... I mean... what could go wrong?”
An organism engineered to eat hydrocarbons in order to cleanup oil spills was created in the 70s. It was the first patented organism. To my knowledge it was never released.
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posted on
05/20/2010 12:06:21 PM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: Mr. Lucky
"Of course, the article reveals that the scientists, in fact, did not create life, they altered some of the DNA of an already living cell."
Of course.
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posted on
05/20/2010 12:06:42 PM PDT
by
chuck_the_tv_out
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To: NormsRevenge
This looks like a close-up from the unrated version of Avatar.
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posted on
05/20/2010 12:10:37 PM PDT
by
Gabrial
(The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
To: IrishCatholic
Accelerating evolution artificially requires intelligent design. How’s this for a grand, unified theory?
LOL!
To: SpinnerWebb
let's engineer one that eats hydrocarbons, and release it in the Gulf to help clean up the oil spill... I mean... what could go wrong?We could call it Wormwood ...
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:17:14 PM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
To: NormsRevenge
The method could be used to design bacteria specifically to help produce biofuels We already have something called algae, that can do that.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:44:57 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
To: Spok
How long before its elected to national office? Are you kidding? We already have him.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:46:00 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
To: itsahoot
To: Hacklehead
We need to saturation bomb the entire mideast with oil eating bacteria bombs.
Wahabi fundamentalists will need to sell a F***LOAD of dates to continue to fund their jihadis.
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posted on
05/20/2010 5:06:28 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
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posted on
05/20/2010 6:44:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: NormsRevenge
And what happens if some nutcase combines the properties of Anthrax, Bubonic Plague, Ebola Zaire, Influenza, and maybe a few others?
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posted on
05/20/2010 6:54:16 PM PDT
by
nomad
To: nomad
The survivors will all look like this:
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posted on
05/21/2010 4:58:54 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: Spok
How long before its elected to national office?It hasn't been? Darn! There goes my Pelosi theory.
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posted on
05/21/2010 5:09:43 PM PDT
by
Robwin
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