*UPDATED*'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists *VIDEO*

[Ickorus]

THE ZOMPOCALYPSE IS NIGH!

 

[Mechsoap]

cant wait to never ageing and super strength

 

[Kollega]

So, let me think. For starters, we could create bacteria to fight global warming or terraform Mars. Or to cure cancer. Some decades later, we could splice toghether and artificially grow dragons or Lombaxes.

And to all the doomsayers: there are two things to be done against militaries. First, if they can bioengineer a teleporting ebola, why can't we bioengineer a vaccine that shoots lightning at it? Second, that's a good reason to get colonizing other planets ASAP. Even if Earth falls, colonies will be safe.

 

[aruseusx]

Well now we know how to terraform Mars, we better get to it.

Are you talking about doing it like in that movie Red Planet with algee?

Haven't heard of that movie before. Just thought we could make bacteria that thrived on mars atmosphere and eventually changed it into ours.

 

[PurpleSky]

Well now we know how to terraform Mars, we better get to it.

Are you talking about doing it like in that movie Red Planet with algee?

Haven't heard of that movie before. Just thought we could make bacteria that thrived on mars atmosphere and eventually changed it into ours.

Yeah those algee did the exact same thing,and could be used to eliminate polution back on Earth.

 

[ethaninja]

The beginning of the end?

Since super robots are the only conceivable outcome of this.

I'm thinking mutants/zombies.

I'm thinking Terminator

 

[Legendsmith]

The beginning of the end?

Since super robots are the only conceivable outcome of this.

You mean super bio-robots. That reproduce.
...
We're screwed.

In all seriousness though, this will have great applications, as well as terrible ones. As always.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Wait, so they can create living cells on a cell-by-cell basis? So it would take a couple of centuries and a impossible sum of money to create even one velociraptor? There go my dreams of seeing jurassic park happen

 

[Trebort]

Wow this is incredible, we are as unto God! Seriously, we have reached into nothing and created life, that's incredible!

The implications could be unpleasant but think about it guys, we've finally discovered the mechanism behind creation! This is a momentous day in our history, our natural curiosity and relentless application of logic have borne the most spectacular fruit we are ever likely to personally see.

Wait, can you hear that?! It's the God Squad marching on the labs to stop these evil experiments. .

Humanity will never amount to anything while we still fear Religion.

But I do agree with you, it's a great time for our race.

 

[JimJamJahar]

Soon, scientist will be able to keep people alive forever, by creating new cells for the body.

I can't wait...

I'm sure I saw a thing on TV about the way they can keep you alive forever, but as you age, your chance of getting cancer increases drastically

 

[Marter]

Soon, scientist will be able to keep people alive forever, by creating new cells for the body.

I can't wait...

I'm sure I saw a thing on TV about the way they can keep you alive forever, but as you age, your chance of getting cancer increases drastically

But you can live forever, right? That means that the cancer wouldn't matter. Sure, you'd have to go through tons of treatment, but as long as you're still alive, you're fine, right? /sarcasm

 

[PurpleSky]

Soon, scientist will be able to keep people alive forever, by creating new cells for the body.

I can't wait...

I'm sure I saw a thing on TV about the way they can keep you alive forever, but as you age, your chance of getting cancer increases drastically

Well I'm no urologist,but I know that cancer involves your cells dying.

 

[zehydra]

Just read/watch Jurassic Park, and you will understand the ultimate outcome of this.

lesbian dino-babies?

Well, no, it's that things go completely unexpected when you start messing that much with life. What's a very dangerous thought is what could happen with this kind of technology in the hands of corporations that are totally amoral and seek nothing but profit. Personally, I find them more frightening than terrorists, because well, it's easier to get the public to pass judgement on a terrorist than a corporation.

 

[PurpleSky]

This will be the new industrial revolution,said the guy from Synthetics.

 

[PurpleSky]

Deus Ex here I come! Or invisible war, if you had an xbox. That game was so awesome.
Does anyone see FEV virus coming out of this?

Is Deux Ex free?

 

[Plazmatic]

How is this synthetic? All they're doing is putting DNA inside a cell that already exists. Hell, I've done this at least 3 times in my high school genetics class THIS YEAR (as in, jan to may semester).

You need to learn to read..

"The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species "dictated" by the synthetic DNA"

Yeah... What's different from manipulating plasmids and transplanting those? Or removing entire nuclei?

WOW OK this may be really hard for you to understand, but in the quote it clearly states that
"The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software"'
This isn't transplanting it from another organism, or manipulating one from another and putting it in to another, THIS IS CREATING GENETIC INFORMATION ENTIRELY FROM SCRATCH and then inserting it into another host, now, if you STILL don't understand you can look at the new video put up on the first post on this thread, and if you, even then, still can not comprehend this is something new and revolutionary, and you have not actually done the same in your high-school science lab, then you need a serious mental evaluation.

 

[firedfns13]

I don't see how thats any different than what they're already doing. They're programming nanomachines with DNA trails. Obviously those are made from scratch.

 

[PurpleSky]

The beginning of the end?

Since super robots are the only conceivable outcome of this.

What do robots have to do with this??

I guess others have already quoted you and asked, but since you didn't post an edit on your original post, I will ask that again.

OP: Science has the ability to help and hinder humans.

If this will curb the fallout we will get from cell phones and wi-fi causing cancer, then it could be a better thing as apposed to a bad thing.

Where do I sign up for replacement organs? Oh wait, I am not insanely rich, never mind.

A study showed that cell phones don't give you cancer.Only one type of cancer was within the error limits.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

I, for one, welcome our new synthetic overlords and would like to formally offer my services in exchange for continued living.