• Scientist makes first synthetic life, consensus complete.
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[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm[/url] [quote]Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell. 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. The advance, published in Science, has been hailed as a scientific landmark, but critics say there are dangers posed by synthetic organisms. The team hopes eventually to design bacterial cells that will produce medicines and fuels and even absorb greenhouse gases.[/quote] [img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/47890000/jpg/_47890096_gibson2hr.jpg[/img] SCIENCE
Holy shit [editline]05:13PM[/editline] Are we seriously basically making living things from nothing now?
Spore will become reality. Oh god dicks everywhere.
Fuck.
I smell an incoming shitstorm of religious extremists.
No Gods or Kings, only Man. but seriously fucking awesome.
And then they fuck something up and create a super-deadly virus by accident.
Haha we can make our own people now. Tired of that chinese co-worker asshole? REPLACE HIM! :downs:
Equip disruptor ammo +20% damage against synthetics
Well, it's not Frankenstein, but it's still life.
I will so laugh if something from the film "28 Days Later" happens as a result of them fucking up and making a zombie virus.
But they still needed the host cell in the first place, right?
[QUOTE=Perfumly;22064863]Holy shit [editline]05:13PM[/editline] Are we seriously basically making living things from nothing now?[/QUOTE] No. Read it. It says they transplanted genes into a host cell.
Now I've got this mental Image of some Scientist shooting lighting bolts out of his fingers into a Petri Dish and shouting [B]LIVE[/B].
I doubt mankind can be responsible with creating life.
[QUOTE=ComboTroop;22065033]I will so laugh if something from the film "28 Days Later" happens as a result of them fucking up and making a zombie virus.[/QUOTE] No, you'll be going BLARGHGALKFJSLDFJKASDKLJ because you'll have been infected in about the first week.
[QUOTE=TH89;22064988]Equip disruptor ammo +20% damage against synthetics[/QUOTE] this synthetic has armor and shield, your disruptor ammo ain't doing shit
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;22065101]this synthetic has armor and shield, your disruptor ammo ain't doing shit[/QUOTE] Disruptor ammo also does added damage towards shields [editline]06:25PM[/editline] Also I am an engineer so I can use incinerate against the armor
By 2020, we'll have: [img]http://files.myopera.com/thexavier666/albums/888618/Half%20Life%202%20Episode%202%20-%20Hunter%201.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=TH89;22065113]Disruptor ammo also does added damage towards shields [editline]06:25PM[/editline] Also I am an engineer so I can use incinerate against the armor[/QUOTE] You love that game, don't you, mate?
I thought they had made eyeballs when I saw the image. Then I read the article.
[QUOTE=TH89;22065113]Disruptor ammo also does added damage towards shields [editline]06:25PM[/editline] Also I am an engineer so I can use incinerate against the armor[/QUOTE] who the fuck ever plays engineer
I do.
Aww fuck I thought they made it from scratch.
Creepy
[QUOTE=Omali;22065094]No, you'll be going BLARGHGALKFJSLDFJKASDKLJ because you'll have been infected in about the first week.[/QUOTE] Depends, as the outbreak will in the first week should slowly spread, then the second week, should things will speed up, I have a 23% chance of survival, so who knows.
Oh fuck plasmids.
Actually, I can easily imagine the most obvious application of this science to be engineering of prepurposed microbes - like the kind that would maybe be used to consume oil slicks. Or the kind used as a biological weapon.
Shall I celebrate now, or wait for the Higgs?
[QUOTE=jalit;22065067]No. Read it. It says they transplanted genes into a host cell.[/QUOTE] I'm probably thinking about this the wrong way, but isn't that more like cloning cells?
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