Scientists create world's first synthetic lifeform[views:1872][posts:11]____________________________________ [May 20,2010 8:35pm - arilliusbm ""] http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may...20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-form like all scientific breakthroughs, this has the potential for good and evil uses |
| ______________________________ [May 20,2010 8:56pm - Lamp ""] That's pretty amazing actually... I will be interested to see how this technology evolves in the coming years. |
| ________________________________________ [May 20,2010 9:55pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Wow. Weird living in the future. |
| _______________________________________ [May 20,2010 10:20pm - the_reverend ""] hopefully it kills us with fire. |
| ____________________________________ [May 20,2010 11:06pm - arktouros ""] Dr Venter became a controversial figure in the 1990s when he pitted his former company, Celera Genomics, against the publicly funded effort to sequence the human genome, the Human Genome Project. Venter had already applied for patents on more than 300 genes, raising concerns that the company might claim intellectual rights to the building blocks of life. Evil it is! |
| _______________________________________ [May 20,2010 11:07pm - the_reverend ""] sounds great |
| _____________________________________ [May 20,2010 11:18pm - arilliusbm ""] AIDS was created in a lab. So was swine flu. This is the wave of the future. |
| ________________________________ [May 20,2010 11:25pm - sigh ""] I first read that guys name as "Venture". |
| ___________________________________________ [May 20,2010 11:41pm - largefreakatzero ""] I'm currently sitting at a bar in NJ - I am surrounded by synthetic life forms. |
| ______________________________________________ [May 21,2010 10:05am - Woah!_Shut_It_Down! ""] How long before we make living clothing? Shirts that literally breathe? Sign me up, khed! |
| ______________________________________ [May 21,2010 4:09pm - Doomkid nli ""] largefreakatzero said:I'm currently sitting at a bar in NJ - I am surrounded by synthetic life forms. |
| ______________________________ [May 22,2010 10:23am - pam ""] Should be fun to watch them discover hundreds of ways to turn this into a terrible idea. |