evince
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Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life’s blueprint
Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life’s blueprint
DNA from scratch:custom built life
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
without even being able to read the article I know that it says somewhere that they will use this to replace the existing DNA of an already living cell.........because science is incapable and will always be incapable of causing something that isn't "life" to live.......
evince
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NEW YORK (AP) — At Jef Boeke’s lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
But he and his colleagues are cooking up something else altogether: yeast that works with chunks of man-made DNA.
Scientists have long been able to make specific changes in the DNA code. Now, they’re taking the more radical step of starting over, and building redesigned life forms from scratch. Boeke, a researcher at New York University, directs an international team of 11 labs on four continents working to “rewrite” the yeast genome, following a detailed plan they published in March.
Their work is part of a bold and controversial pursuit aimed at creating custom-made DNA codes to be inserted into living cells to change how they function, or even provide a treatment for diseases. It could also someday help give scientists the profound and unsettling ability to create entirely new organisms.
The genome is the entire genetic code of a living thing. Learning how to make one from scratch, Boeke said, means “you really can construct something that’s completely new.”
But he and his colleagues are cooking up something else altogether: yeast that works with chunks of man-made DNA.
Scientists have long been able to make specific changes in the DNA code. Now, they’re taking the more radical step of starting over, and building redesigned life forms from scratch. Boeke, a researcher at New York University, directs an international team of 11 labs on four continents working to “rewrite” the yeast genome, following a detailed plan they published in March.
Their work is part of a bold and controversial pursuit aimed at creating custom-made DNA codes to be inserted into living cells to change how they function, or even provide a treatment for diseases. It could also someday help give scientists the profound and unsettling ability to create entirely new organisms.
The genome is the entire genetic code of a living thing. Learning how to make one from scratch, Boeke said, means “you really can construct something that’s completely new.”
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I don't think Evince understands the article.
The article is bullshit, as if new DNA is created it will be neither yeast or human nor a combination of the two. However you are too dumb to notice this suttle fact.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
GMO is not new......
DNA from scratch can never be a GMO
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
obviously it is......granted its as modified as it could ever be, but its still a genetically modified organism......
Wrong, DNA from scratch would be an all new organism, not a modified one
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
no.......making an organism from scratch with something other than DNA would be a new organism........modifying DNA is still modifying.......
You are clueless.................and probably invested in this company
Bye the way, what wood 1 use to create your new organizmmm not made with DNA?
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
don't ask me........you're the one who wants a new organism....I'm content with the old ones that God created.......
God created us, and gave us the ability to create ourselves, and take our creations to new Worlds where we will unleash them to live and flourish.
Life will soon be created, it may first be computer software, but biology will follow, with only the future as a timeline.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
/yawn......sure....and the demmycrats will fall in love with Trump......
Which part was wrong?
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
well specifically the "Life will be created" part, but most of the rest was a little muddy........drawing pictures and writing music makes us creative, but the reality is we have never "created" as much as a grain of sand.......
Darth Omar
Russian asset
DNA from scratch is way beyond our capabilities.
At minimum, it would entail forming a double helix from its base constituents. I didn't read the article but they probably spliced DNA segments and/or caused some substitutions to occur in a pre-existing DNA sequence.
Or something similar.