Comments on: Breakthrough Means Artificial Life Could Be Here “Within Months”

By: francis

francis — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:31:51 +0000

Venter continues to make money from bulls#!^, alsorans rush to agree with him.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:22:32 +0000

We already know how to create life, and it’s waay more fun.

By: Gorf

Gorf — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:37:44 +0000

This is great! What could go wrong?

By: dutchboy

dutchboy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:52:32 +0000

Show me the beef.

By: Steohawk

Steohawk — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:54:24 +0000

Does this count as intelligent design?

By: chessm

chessm — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:48:26 +0000

we can’t let this succeed or it will will lead to artificial intelligence, and then….artificial sweeteners!!

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:37:22 +0000

As a member of the non-official Neatonauts Nay-Sayer Squad, “It will not work.”

Here is how you can tell: When scientists do something great, they brag and show it to the world. If they can’t and no one else has proven they can’t, they announce that a breakthrough is imminent and grab more funding. If they can and are about to do it, they hide from the world until they do.

By: Hannibal

Hannibal — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:20:09 +0000

Children playing in the mud in God's workshop. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:08:58 +0000

@ A Noun

Thanks, you made my morning! LOL

By: A Noun

A Noun — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:25:24 +0000

These people must be stopped – they’re trying to change Macs into PCs!

By: coconutnut

coconutnut — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:57:14 +0000

Here is the updated article.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6804599.ece

By: coconutnut

coconutnut — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:48:53 +0000

Oh sorry, the article is from two years old but the updated story from this month is a continuation from that research; the update explains that trasplanting DNA grown from a lab into a living cell has failed since 2007 because of rejection issues. The breaktrough is that Dr. Craig Venter has developed a way to grow DNA which are methylated.
“Methylation should protect the synthetic genome against the host cells’ defenses, much as drugs that suppress the immune system protect transplanted organs against rejection. ”

I was jumping around articles to get a picture I liked and I went for the old article by mistake. Really sorry about that.

By: Random_Tangent

Random_Tangent — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:02:32 +0000

“changing a Macintosh computer into a PC by inserting a new piece of software”

Oh if only it were as easy as just installing windows.

Hey, waitaminute….

By: DaveL

DaveL — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:46:32 +0000

Yo! Replicate me a pizza biotch!

By: Triseult

Triseult — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:00:11 +0000

This article is 2 years old, by the way.