we have moved beyond splicing genes into bacterium and have them produce certain proteins. Now we can create all new bacterium. Though this article didn't really explain how hard it was to do this, creating entire sections of dna is a lot harder than specific substrands for our tools get harder to use the bigger the strand is.
Scientists have created life! God reported to be "miffed"
20/05/2010 09:01:10 PM
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wait... what?
20/05/2010 09:40:44 PM
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Ummm, military technology has always been at the leading edge of research.
20/05/2010 09:57:20 PM
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I think that is what he said
20/05/2010 10:00:24 PM
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I would like to also remind that the military does not only research weapons.
20/05/2010 10:42:36 PM
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This is a really big deal
21/05/2010 12:34:32 PM
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Copying one organisms DNA and putting it into another organisms cells is creating life?
21/05/2010 02:43:53 PM
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mmm, I would like to point out they did not merely COPY a creature's dna and put it elsewere
21/05/2010 04:23:52 PM
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But they synthesized existing DNA, right? Or am I missing something?
21/05/2010 04:39:23 PM
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Re: But they synthesized existing DNA, right? Or am I missing something?
21/05/2010 05:28:15 PM
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Huh, where'd you see that?
21/05/2010 05:36:39 PM
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In the original article where it was published, funnily enough
22/05/2010 03:18:36 PM
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Didn't realize you could read their articles for free at their site.
22/05/2010 03:26:52 PM
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I do believe...
21/05/2010 03:11:58 PM
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