[ExI] Holy Schlamoley! Venter's team creates synthetic life!

[Mirco Romanato]

Il 21/05/2010 15.43, Ben Zaiboc ha scritto:


> Giulio Prisco<giulio at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> As usual, the press covers this development with some hype.
>> But beyond the
>> press' hype, this is a spectacular achievement. Especially
>> from a memetic
>> point of view: we know that life can be engineered as a
>> matter of fact, and
>> goodbye vitalist mysticism.
>>      
> <Devil's Advocate>
> I doubt it.
>
> Not meaning to trivilaise what they've done, but it was 'only' the copying of some existing DNA and then inserting it into a cell without it's own DNA.  You could interpret this as meaning that DNA isn't as important as we thought, and the 'Elan Vital' lies in protoplasm.  Synthesise /that/, Venter!
> </Devil's Advocate>
>    
The real act of creation would be to start with the specs of what the 
organism must do and how and write down the needed DNA.
This would be life engineering.

Mirco
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