magley64 Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 This is pretty effing cool...http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/5/7/5691744/scientists-create-life-form-with-alien-dna-six-letters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-bus Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Here comes the zombie apocalypse. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Here comes the zombie apocalypse. Fucking with life is a really bad idea. Have these people not seen movies like Jurassic Park? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted May 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 It's a little scary, sure.I find it VERY exciting.It's completely new territory.Jurrasic park was just about recombining DNA into forms it had already been in at one time (or close).This is something completely different.. Will the new nucleotides give this organism any properties previously inconceivable for life?Could there be even more nucleotides that could be added? All life on earth, in all of it's diversity is just a code of four letters AGTC, and look at all of the complexity and diversity... you start adding to that alphabet, and nobody knows what could happen...Very exciting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnone Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 via npr: Chemists Expand Nature's Genetic Alphabet http://n.pr/1ooQqSb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natedogg624 Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 ELI5 please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Scares me personally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbarron77 Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Here comes the zombie apocalypse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpoppa Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 I welcome our new overlords. The gotta be better than the ones we have today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Yes, not based on anything human, and assuming certain characteristics of alien, would not be alien either. Totally artificial, it could be anything or something else all together. A complete unknown. Dangerous territory, don't let it loose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smccrory Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Is man separate from nature, or an extension of nature? Don't be so fast with either answer - philosophers, theologians and scientists have been struggling with this for thousands of years. Brought to this issue: Are we messing with something so fundamental to life as we know it that it could only turn out horribly, or... Are we doing what nature built us to do, perhaps to unlock the next round of planetary evolution? Like, maybe it'll result in better YouTube cat videos because the cats will be frigging huge and shaped like preying mantises. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted May 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Dangerous territory, don't let it loose. They have thought of this, the Nucleotides that they used are completely synthetic. If not supplied by the lab, the organism cannot produce them on their own. Is man separate from nature, or an extension of nature? Don't be so fast with either answer - philosophers, theologians and scientists have been struggling with this for thousands of years. Brought to this issue: Are we messing with something so fundamental to life as we know it that it could only turn out horribly, or... Are we doing what nature built us to do, perhaps to unlock the next round of planetary evolution? Like, maybe it'll result in better YouTube cat videos because the cats will be frigging huge and shaped like preying mantises. We could do cat sized praying mantii with the current set of base pairs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smccrory Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 They have thought of this, the Nucleotides that they used are completely synthetic. If not supplied by the lab, the organism cannot produce them on their own. We could do cat sized praying mantii with the current set of base pairs... OK, so, a young, single geneticist is walking through the park and comes upon a mantis-shaped cat, which he promptly picks up (having noticed it was one of his colleagues' escaped creations). The catmantis speaks in Cantonese (which fortunately he understands), "a naughty man turned me into this form, but I'm actually a smok'n hot Thunder Roads model and will be again if you help me." The man thinks for a moment, and catmantis senses his hesitation, "I'll be your girlfriend and do whatever you want me to do - we'll have so much fun together before, after, and heck, even in the lab <wink wink>." Upon further thought, the man places catmantis into his pocket and begins to walk again. Catmantis, confused, exclaims, "don't you understand what I'm offering to you? I'll be the hottest gal that any of your friends have ever seen and I'll be yours, all yours!" To which he says, "hey, I'm a geneticist - I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking catmantis is cool!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted May 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 OK, so, a young, single geneticist is walking through the park and comes upon a mantis-shaped cat, which he promptly picks up (having noticed it was one of his colleagues' escaped creations). The catmantis speaks in Cantonese (which fortunately he understands), "a naughty man turned me into this form, but I'm actually a smok'n hot Thunder Roads model and will be again if you help me." The man thinks for a moment, and catmantis senses his hesitation, "I'll be your girlfriend and do whatever you want me to do - we'll have so much fun together before, after, and heck, even in the lab <wink wink>." Upon further thought, the man places catmantis into his pocket and begins to walk again. Catmantis, confused, exclaims, "don't you understand what I'm offering to you? I'll be the hottest gal that any of your friends have ever seen and I'll be yours, all yours!" To which he says, "hey, I'm a geneticist - I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking catmantis is cool!" Don't do it, female mantii generally decapitate their mate, and consume their head... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smccrory Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Don't do it, female mantii generally decapitate their mate, and consume their head... Perhaps, but the only difference from the human female is... time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzer Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 The blueprints have changed, but the tools and machinery that read the prints have not. In fact there is no evidence provided to suggest the tools know how to interpret the new base pairs in any meaningful way to produce new proteins. Nice try though driving up the price of foil... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 They have thought of this, the Nucleotides that they used are completely synthetic. If not supplied by the lab, the organism cannot produce them on their own. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Gotta love a freakin' motorcycle forum with a thread on 6-pair recombinant DNA….FTMFW!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OsuMj Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 (edited) maybe this could open up possibilities concerning disease resistance? Edited May 9, 2014 by OsuMj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedytriple Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 (edited) Whats the name of the company doing this work? Umbrella corporation? Edited May 10, 2014 by speedytriple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smccrory Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 I think they're hiring actually. http://www.umbrellacorporation.net/badge.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 this news kinda just jumps right over the "46 and 2" concept.Here a neat video of this song, i think it might be a repost, but the song still rocks: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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