Harvard Team Creates the World's 1st Synthesized Cells
- added June 16, 2008
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- bshipp
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Mixing some fatty acids and DNA in a test tube of water, they found that the lipid molecules formed a crude ring around the information-rich core. Even more strikingly, nucleotides added to the solution successfully entered the cell and replicated the DNA within a day. We can only hope the scientist took this chance to raise the test tube and cry "In my hand I hold the secret to LIFE ITSELF!", triggering dramatic lightning strikes and thunder in the background.
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that's awesome! i hope the inevitable doesn't happen... oh wait...
i'd like to be a "glass half full" guy about this kind of stuff but its hard to see us not screwing this one up. or there will be too many close-minded jerk offs to let this progress as far as is necessary to be of any help to humanity!!!
arg...-
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- Alex_French
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