Artificial life creation "within months"

This can be a breakthrough in science. So many possibilities and applications

the article is slightly misleading they are not creating artificial life forms, merely using a novel dna sequence that they cooked up in the lab and putting it into an existing bacterial life form. this is not even close to being the first dna-manipulation experiment. however, the implications of being able to create an entirely new genome for a living thing should not be overlooked

Cool if they successfully create a virus or bacteria or something that eats HIV. Just a matter of time, I guess.

The day that we will put an artificial remake of the human genome in an artificially made embryo is the day the absurd notion of a "soul" will finally die. Hopefully, a good part of religion will go with it. Seriously. Go downloaded the entire human genome of NCBI's website in .tar format. The only soul in there is the heme binding protein 2 which goes by the alias SOUL. And that looks like this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/224589818?from=138725336&to=138734582&report=fasta No soul. Just a lot of A's, G's, C's, and T's. The only reason that this hasn't taken the world by storm ... [More]

The day that we will put an artificial remake of the human genome in an artificially made embryo is the day the absurd notion of a "soul" will finally die. Hopefully, a good part of religion will go with it. Seriously. Go downloaded the entire human genome of NCBI's website in .tar format. The only soul in there is the heme binding protein 2 which goes by the alias SOUL. And that looks like this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/224589818?from=138725336&to=138734582&report=fasta No soul. Just a lot of A's, G's, C's, and T's. The only reason that this hasn't taken the world by storm ... [More]

Interesting thought. I am not afraid of this creation but rather how people would accept it. Exactly!

Cool if they successfully create a virus or bacteria or something that eats HIV. Just a matter of time, I guess. Definitely. Although all new breakthroughs had their trials and errors, so this one sounds painful if it backfires in any way.

Sanderz: "Cool if they successfully create a virus or bacteria or something that eats HIV. Just a matter of time, I guess." Y...eah....