So how does this show that this is the most repeated experiment of all time?
This is what I was responding to:
"OK. Every citation I followed was commentary on the original experiment."--SkyWriting
Are you taking that comment back?
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So how does this show that this is the most repeated experiment of all time?
And by that I don't mean synthesising a replacement set of DNA and placing it in a cell and noting that it continues to live (which has been done). I mean create something living from base chemicals.
How far are we away from achieving this?
BTW: My personal intention is to post this question, and stand back for at least a bit and let others discuss.
Will that make us Gods? We could literally put our initials on the DNA.
Creationism proved true, confirming God. A huge chunk of humanity would call the person doing this God.
I loved MAD magazine. I had pretty well all the issues from ~1968-1975. And I used to love finding the pocketbooks in used book stores, especially the old ones.
Already done.
"Researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute recently unveiled their first self-replicating synthetic bacteria (M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0) whose DNA was 'programmed' base pair by base pair. To verify that they had synthesized a new organism and not assembled the DNA from another natural bacteria, scientists encoded a series of 'watermarks' into the genes of M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. There are four of these hidden messages: an explanation of the coding system used, a URL address for those who crack the code to go visit, a list of 46 authors and contributors, and a series of famous quotes. The presence of these watermarks verifies that M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 truly is synthetic and demonstrates the precision and power of JCVI's new techniques in synthetic biology."
http://singularityhub.com/2010/05/2...acteria-has-secret-messages-coded-in-its-dna/
I won't be calling Craig Venter "God" anytime soon, but I have heard he has a big ego.
Already done.
"Researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute recently unveiled their first self-replicating synthetic bacteria (M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0) whose DNA was 'programmed' base pair by base pair.
How to Claim You've Created Life in a Laboratory:
- Find something alive.
- Put it in a Petri dish.
- Add some ingredients so it will look "worked on".
- Wait 24 hours.
- If it's still alive, make your claim.
You mean kill it, then resurrect it?That's not it.
1. Find something alive.
2. Take out its DNA so that it can't survive.
3. Add new DNA that was synthesized in the lab.
4. Wait for it to reproduce.
5. Introduce the newly made species.
You mean kill it, then resurrect it?