Science gets closer to artificial life with first synthetic chromosome
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Science, man. An international team of scientists have made a major breakthrough in synthetic biology. For the first time ever, they were able to insert a man-made, custom-built chromosome into brewer's yeast to not only create a life form but one that also passes down its man-made genes to its offspring. We're closer to creating artificial life.
Scientists have previously made chromosomes for bacteria and viruses but this is the first time they've been able to build a chromosome for something more complex. Called eukaryotic chromosomes, they have a nucleus and are found in plants, animals and humans.
The artificial chromosome, called synIII after the chromosome three in brewer's yeast it replaced, was stitched together via a computer by a team of scientists over a period of seven years. They basically redesigned the whole damn thing piece by piece. The scientist liken man-made chromosomes to the idea that you could shuffle genes into them like a deck of cards.
The yeast cells that contained the designer chromosomes behaved as normally as, well, normal yeast cells only that they could theoretically be improved and do things normal yeast cells could not. Potentially, scientists could create man-made versions of all the chromosomes in organisms thus creating artificial life. Science, man.
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But this is impossible right ? Surely only ? can create life ?
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This is not actually creating life it 's changing life
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But this is impossible right ? Surely only ? can create life ?
How do you know he didn't master this science in order to create life tho?
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This is not actually creating life it 's changing life
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this will turn out good...
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I wonder how many octopus babies will be born from this before they get it right?
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They gonna make living Ken dolls like Metal Gear Solid 2.
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This will not end good though. U know certain "Types" will be phased out of the gene pool.
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INB4 @DoUwant2go2Heaven? enters the thread quoting Deuteronomy
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This probably how they ? around and invented AIDS and cancer.
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Patents on living creatures is not good.
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The rise of ? king Ajacks
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I don't have a problem with evolution but this is not really evolution in the first place because evolution is natural change in response to various factors leading to a different organism, this is designed change in a lifeform. -
Hopefully I'll be dead when this ? hits the fan
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Cancer?
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Who will bow first when I gain my ascension? Probably the white ? .
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Shizlansky wrote: »Cancer?
Really?
Ight buddy, don't be 'that guy'. I'm sure they have some culpability in it. -
link?
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INB4 The Matrix comes to fruition
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MMM!
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so who's going to be the ? to have sex with the chick from species when she crawls into your pool and you have no idea how she ended up there or why.
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So basically they've been done it and just now letting us know about it...
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INB4 @DoUwant2go2Heaven? enters the thread quoting Deuteronomy
He's flipping through the bible for a verse we speak -
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