CNN Gets 'Synthetic Life' Right in the Headlines
May 26, 2010 at 9:02 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2010 at 9:04 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
headline: 'We Did Not Create Life From Scratch'
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/21/ven...index.html
I was trying to explain the importance of making the emphasis that they did not create life 'from scratch' especially for atheists to theists on Tiberius's thread 'Scientists Create Synthetic Life'.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/21/ven...index.html
I was trying to explain the importance of making the emphasis that they did not create life 'from scratch' especially for atheists to theists on Tiberius's thread 'Scientists Create Synthetic Life'.
Quote:J. Craig Venter: "We built it from four bottles of chemicals.. that's over a million base pairs [of chromosomes]. We assembled that and transplanted it into a recipient cell and that new chromosome started being read by the machinery in the cell, producing new proteins, and totally transformed that cell into a new species coded by the synthetic chromosome. So it's the first living self-replicating cell that we have on the planet whose DNA was made chemically and designed in the computer."emphasis by me since I suggested earlier that 'synthetic life' was still too ambiguous and even an exaggeration; synthetic species may be more accurate.
