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Scientists Create Semi-Living 'Cyborg' Cells That Could Transform Medicine
https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 31 January 2023 | ByDAVID NIELD

Posted on 01/31/2023 2:36:52 AM PST by RomanSoldier19

Through a complex chemical process, scientists have been able to develop versatile, synthetic 'cyborg' cells in the lab. They share many characteristics of living cells while lacking the ability to divide and grow.

That non-replication part is important. For artificial cells to be useful, they need to be carefully controlled, and that can't happen as easily if they're propagating in the same way that actual cells do.

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While able to maintain much of their normal biological functions, these cyborg cells proved to be more resistant to stressors like high pH and antibiotic exposure – stressors that would kill off normal cells. Much like actual cyborgs, they're tough.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...


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1 posted on 01/31/2023 2:36:52 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19
Transhumanism marches on. Made in God's image? Oh, not anymore! You see ... we made it better ...
2 posted on 01/31/2023 2:43:36 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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“… That non-replication part is important. For artificial cells to be useful, they need to be carefully controlled, and that can’t happen as easily if they’re propagating in the same way that actual cells do.…”
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Hmmm… I see an OPPORTUNITY FOR GAIN OF FUNCTION efforts.


3 posted on 01/31/2023 2:54:08 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: RomanSoldier19

*shakes head*


4 posted on 01/31/2023 2:57:28 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: RomanSoldier19
"...while lacking the ability to divide and grow."


5 posted on 01/31/2023 2:57:43 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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Hmmmm, quasi-living cells that can’t replicate on their own. We used to call those a “virus”.


6 posted on 01/31/2023 3:10:40 AM PST by katana
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That non-replication part is important.

For artificial cells to be useful,
THEY NEED TO BE CAREFULLY CONTROLLED,

and that can’t happen as easily if they’re propagating in the same way that actual cells do.

the above Im sure has already happened but they are not telling you. This research is not to benefit us


7 posted on 01/31/2023 3:12:00 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Sounds great. What could possibly go wrong? Better start mass production.


8 posted on 01/31/2023 3:22:01 AM PST by desertsolitaire
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To: RomanSoldier19

Let it communicate through ChatGPT and we could be in trouble. It could program itself to override any protections.


9 posted on 01/31/2023 3:31:13 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I could see this developing into something that demands worship.


10 posted on 01/31/2023 3:34:50 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: RomanSoldier19
From a purely science fiction POV, this is going to be great fun.

It reminds me of this brief exchange in Jurassic Park:

Dr. Ian Malcolm: If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is.

John Hammond: [sardonically] There it is.

Henry Wu: You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed?

Dr. Ian Malcolm: No. I'm, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.


11 posted on 01/31/2023 3:37:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Yeah. This is going to end well. Uh huh. I’m no Luddite, but c’mon.


12 posted on 01/31/2023 3:54:12 AM PST by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: katana
Hmmmm, quasi-living cells that can’t replicate on their own. We used to call those a “virus”.

I'm thinking more like bacteria, but same idea. Cyborg infections that antibiotics are powerless to stop.

It amazes me how suicidal we are as a species.

13 posted on 01/31/2023 3:58:50 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Where have you gone, Dr. Fauci . . . a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Boo, hoo, hoo . . .


14 posted on 01/31/2023 4:02:26 AM PST by Charlemagne on the Fox
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Where have you gone, Dr. Fauci . . . a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Boo, hoo, hoo . . .


15 posted on 01/31/2023 4:02:44 AM PST by Charlemagne on the Fox
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To: RomanSoldier19; Roman_War_Criminal; SaveFerris; Jane Long; ransomnote; SecAmndmt; Jan_Sobieski; ...

Ping


16 posted on 01/31/2023 4:19:07 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: RomanSoldier19

More gain-of-function “opportunities” - and they will try the “let-them-replicate” route “just for giggles...”


17 posted on 01/31/2023 4:43:33 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: RoosterRedux
[Dr. Ian Malcolm: No. I'm, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.]

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18 posted on 01/31/2023 4:47:57 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I think a really good idea would be to finance a chicom biolab to do some research on this for us.


19 posted on 01/31/2023 4:55:48 AM PST by Flag_This
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No boundaries, the science/medical community does whatever it wants to do.

I can’t imagine what this world will be like in 10 years....maybe just 5. I think we saw some of the ramifications with Covid. They wont stop.


20 posted on 01/31/2023 4:56:21 AM PST by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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