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CK_John

(10,005 posts) Wed May 7, 2014, 08:10 PM May 2014

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This is scary, Scientists Create First Living Organism With 'Artificial' DNA.

HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/living-organism-artificial-dna_n_5283095.html

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This is scary, Scientists Create First Living Organism With 'Artificial' DNA. (Original Post) CK_John May 2014 OP

Next, they'll need a brain. Octafish May 2014 #1

What is scary about it? (nt) LostOne4Ever May 2014 #2

How this turn the religious world upside down and how crazy the zealots will become. CK_John May 2014 #4

Ah I get you now. Thanks! (nt) LostOne4Ever May 2014 #5

It sounds like the opening to a zombie movie? Prophet 451 May 2014 #6

Misleading headline. The DNA in question only has 1 artificial DNA base pair out of millions. AScott May 2014 #3

This is not scary; this is complex chemistry. Agnosticsherbet May 2014 #7

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

1. Next, they'll need a brain.

Reply to CK_John (Original post)

Wed May 7, 2014, 08:13 PM

May 2014

An artificial brain.

LostOne4Ever

(9,290 posts)

2. What is scary about it? (nt)

Reply to CK_John (Original post)

Wed May 7, 2014, 08:16 PM

May 2014

CK_John

(10,005 posts)

4. How this turn the religious world upside down and how crazy the zealots will become.

Reply to LostOne4Ever (Reply #2)

Wed May 7, 2014, 08:21 PM

May 2014

LostOne4Ever

(9,290 posts)

5. Ah I get you now. Thanks! (nt)

Reply to CK_John (Reply #4)

Wed May 7, 2014, 08:22 PM

May 2014

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)

6. It sounds like the opening to a zombie movie?

Reply to LostOne4Ever (Reply #2)

Wed May 7, 2014, 08:45 PM

May 2014

AScott

(65 posts)

3. Misleading headline. The DNA in question only has 1 artificial DNA base pair out of millions.

Reply to CK_John (Original post)

Wed May 7, 2014, 08:20 PM

May 2014

Misleading headline. The DNA in question only has 1 artificial DNA base pair out of millions.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

7. This is not scary; this is complex chemistry.

Reply to CK_John (Original post)

Wed May 7, 2014, 08:50 PM

May 2014

I am sure there are religious types who will pull out their torches and pitchforks and seek to burn the Frankenscientists and their monster. That doesn't make an artificial life scary, it makes religious fanatics scary.

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