For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

Posted by defrost 8 hours ago

For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides(www.quantamagazine.org)

https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/

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caycep 3 hours ago|

this is how Sekiguchi Genetics got started. Or maybe Weyland Yutani Corporation

kadomony 4 hours ago||

This is literally how Cell was made. Cell Saga, here we go.

catigula 5 hours ago||

For some reason, research like this has a much more apocalyptic feeling than it has in the past.

HanClinto 7 hours ago||

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"

bell-cot 6 hours ago|

"And that is why God is far less interested in modern mortal affairs than Theists want Him to be." - [source forgotten]

oytis 6 hours ago||

Uh-oh

ygmelnikova 1 hour ago||

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fschuett 3 hours ago||

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CurbStomper 6 hours ago||

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deadbabe 6 hours ago||

Going by people’s reactions to AI, what will our reactions be to artificial humans generated from these methods?

Will they be hated? Killed off? Will they ever be see as legitimate, or just soulless beings, p-zombies.

vhantz 6 hours ago|

From cells dividing to human generation there is a single step.

Similarly a program that runs on a computer, where its only interactions are strings of numbers is the same as an entity having to interact with the world.

deadbabe 6 hours ago||

Interesting, we should be able to have LLMs generate full genetic code or Inpaint into existing code that can be installed into a cell as DNA and have it divide out into any custom creature.

We could launch these custom bacteria in stasis to planets around the galaxy and seed life everywhere.

tete 2 hours ago||

You should be able. Go for it.

joh6nn 7 hours ago|

For the love of all things holy, can we not do these kinds of experiments on the same planet we live on?

JanJedryszek 2 hours ago||

dyauspitr 7 hours ago|||

Oh shut up, can we get some frontier stuff going without some doom and gloom. All this knowledge for all these years and next to no progress.

snapcaster 6 hours ago||

I blame black mirror for this attitude. If you're going to speculate on imaginary futures why can't they be positive?

qsera 6 hours ago||

>why can't they be positive?

Because no one minds if good things happen...

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