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Il 21/05/2010 15.43, Ben Zaiboc ha scritto:
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<pre wrap="">Giulio Prisco <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com"><giulio@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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!
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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.<br>
This would be life engineering.<br>
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Mirco<br>
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