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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: BMG on June 05, 2012, 06:15:26 PM

Title: Artificial DNA/Synthetic Organisms
Post by: BMG on June 05, 2012, 06:15:26 PM

LINK (http://www.livescience.com/20734-artificial-dna-copies-real.html)

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Romesberg, Malyshev and their colleagues are now working on tweaking NaM and 5SICS so that natural DNA strands with those synthetic bases added will copy even more efficiently, at a rate that's closer to the rate found in all-natural DNA, they wrote in their paper. Once they accomplish that, they can start building synthetic organisms from the ground up. "If we can get this new base pair to replicate with high efficiency and fidelity in vivo [i.e., in a living organism], we'll have a semi-synthetic organism," Romesberg said.

Title: Re: Artificial DNA/Synthetic Organisms
Post by: charlesoakwood on June 05, 2012, 08:28:26 PM

Oh, freaking joy.

Title: Re: Artificial DNA/Synthetic Organisms
Post by: Glock32 on June 05, 2012, 08:31:12 PM

Haven't they ever seen the movie?

Title: Re: Artificial DNA/Synthetic Organisms
Post by: Pandora on June 05, 2012, 09:41:40 PM

Quote from: Glock32 on June 05, 2012, 08:31:12 PM

Haven't they ever seen the movie?

Apparently, they saw it as a "how-to".

Title: Re: Artificial DNA/Synthetic Organisms
Post by: Libertas on June 06, 2012, 07:16:43 AM

SkyNet coming together.  Yippee...

 ::unknowncomic::