Originally posted by King Kandy
How do you know that? It doesn't say in the article.
Originally posted by King Kandy
How do you know that? It doesn't say in the article.
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
http://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/manmadelife.htm
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
http://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/manmadelife.htm
from the site:
The first step of the project will be to create an artificial chromosome (the structure that holds genes in place in the nucleus of a cell) packed with about 300 manufactured genes, based on the essential genes discovered in 1999. The scientists will then place the artificial chromosome in the nucleus of an M. genitalium bacterium whose own genetic material has been removed. If the experiment works, the new cell will be able to divide and produce a new generation of cells, all of which will contain the new man-made genetic instructions.
Originally posted by AngryManatee
from the site:The first step of the project will be to create an artificial chromosome (the structure that holds genes in place in the nucleus of a cell) packed with about 300 manufactured genes, based on the essential genes discovered in 1999. The scientists will then place the artificial chromosome in the nucleus of an M. genitalium bacterium whose own genetic material has been removed. If the experiment works, the new cell will be able to divide and produce a new generation of cells, all of which will contain the new man-made genetic instructions.
They are still using preexistent material as I have previously stated. They are using the Mycoplasma genitalium cell.
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
They are [b]still using preexistent material as I have previously stated. They are using the Mycoplasma genitalium cell. [/B]
The lifeform itself is 100% artificial.
And anyway, even if this isn't artificial life by your definition, you have to admit that it IS a huge step in the right direction.
Originally posted by JesusIsAliveFor you even if they crated everything from nothing you still wouldn't believe because it was done in a lab. The point is with every try and new experiment they get closer and closer removing one important step after another which gets them closer. You do not build the entire house without building the foundation and walls first, once you have these it is still not a house but the first steps to building one.
Creating life means just that: creating life (i.e. creating a complicated organsim from nothing like God did), which Dr. Venter and his myriad of colleagues have not done.