Thread: Are We Ready For Artificial Life?

I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer

· Scientist has made synthetic chromosome
· Breakthrough could combat global warming

• The Guardian
• Saturday October 6 2007

Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.

The announcement, which is expected within weeks and could come as early as Monday at the annual meeting of his scientific institute in San Diego, California, will herald a giant leap forward in the development of designer genomes. It is certain to provoke heated debate about the ethics of creating new species and could unlock the door to new energy sources and techniques to combat global warming.

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Originally Posted by michaelr

I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer

· Scientist has made synthetic chromosome
· Breakthrough could combat global warming

• The Guardian
• Saturday October 6 2007

Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.

The announcement, which is expected within weeks and could come as early as Monday at the annual meeting of his scientific institute in San Diego, California, will herald a giant leap forward in the development of designer genomes. It is certain to provoke heated debate about the ethics of creating new species and could unlock the door to new energy sources and techniques to combat global warming.

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It is then transplanted into a living bacterial cell and in the final stage of the process it is expected to take control of the cell and in effect become a new life form. The team of scientists has already successfully transplanted the genome of one type of bacterium into the cell of another, effectively changing the cell's species. Mr Venter said he was "100% confident" the same technique would work for the artificially created chromosome.
The new life form will depend for its ability to replicate itself and metabolise on the molecular machinery of the cell into which it has been injected, and in that sense it will not be a wholly synthetic life form. However, its DNA will be artificial, and it is the DNA that controls the cell and is credited with being the building block of life.--Link

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I believe we are indeed ready for artificial life - however again, there are ethical questions brought up by this.

At the very least get to the point of uploading the human conscious to a synthetic brain before death. Stupid slow-ass scientist morons.

I can't wait till they figure out the gene sequence to make a dinasour!

PS. I'm ready, I don't know about everyone else.

Originally Posted by TenGig

I can't wait till they figure out the gene sequence to make a dinasour!

Pfft, thats a bit redundant. Do what they did in jurassic park

Originally Posted by Ausinus

Pfft, thats a bit redundant. Do what they did in jurassic park

Hire no talent actors? nah...

How is ti going to be managed? Is it commercial? How is life artificial? Just because it's lab-created? Too many questions.

Didn't we learn our lesson from Jurrassic Park? Jurrassic Park 2? Jurrassic Park 3?

Originally Posted by Its all kosher

Didn't we learn our lesson from Jurrassic Park? Jurrassic Park 2? Jurrassic Park 3?

Maybe you learned something from them but i doubt anyone else did.