"We consider this the second in our three-step process to create the first synthetic organism," said J. Craig Venter, president of the J. Craig Venter Institute where scientists performed the study, on Thursday during a teleconference. "What remains now that we have this complete synthetic chromosome … is to boot this up in a cell."
Very cool!
I liked the part at the end where they talk about having to build frameworks for genetic code like we have for computer code.
Bugs are a problem though, if I code a bug, my app crashes.. If these guys code a bug, it attacks New York!
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haha, lets hope it doesn't come down to a bug that attacks New York. Maybe New Jersey, but not New York.
I don't know what to think of all of this stuff. Its just one more minority for us to discriminate against. Until we all have a robot like Bender, I don't know what to think
First man-made genome created, artifical life not far behind
