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Scientists Build Possibly The First Man-Made Genome
hackingbear writes "Wired is reporting that researchers have created the longest synthetic genome to date by threading together four long strands of DNA. 'Leading synthetic biologists said with the new work, published Thursday in the journal Science, the first synthetic life could be just months away — if it hasn't been created already. [...] The ability to synthesize longer DNA strands for less money parallels the history of genetic sequencing, where the price of sequencing a human genome has dropped from hundreds of millions of dollars to about $10,000. Just a few years ago, synthesizing a piece of DNA with 5,000 rungs in its helix, known as base-pairs, was impossible. Venter's new synthetic genome is 582,000 base-pairs.' As a programmer, I'm most excited by the possibility of a new platform and the programming jobs that will be created by it."
But Jesus, and the Bible!
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
Welcome ours 582,000 base-pair genome overlords
will they use this technology to create a life form who is programmed to create other life forms?
Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! IT'S A NET!!!*
*My apologies for this horrendously bad joke
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If that can be achieved (much like a Florida geneticist once made THC-producing orange trees) then you'll single-handedly kick the War on Drugs' ass. That would be a worthy cause right there.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I will have my four-legged chicken! (The drumstick is my favorite part)
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
As a regular guy, I am NOT excited by the thought of thousands of fat, greasy programmers drooling over a test tube and a well worn copy of "Weird Science."
As my friend Han was so fond of saying, "I've got a bad feeling about this."
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
I have my own theory; so many things in this world annoy me that they couldn't have happened by random chance. Instead they are proof of some supreme cosmic being who shaped the world just to piss me off.
I call my theory Belligerent Design. (with all credit to Lore Sjoberg for that joke).
Of course not because we'd all be dead by now.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
582k ought to be enough for anybody.
Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos.
How can this be attributed to the Finite State Machine. Typically things like this have massive parallelism.
Though I donot usually draw a weiner when designing a FSM, its appendaged are pretty noodly.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
"(Otherwise it's like) writing Vista in binary," he said. "It's just not going to happen."
Oh how I wish I could take the "in binary" out of that sentence.
Still, I can't help but wonder... is the entire universe against me? Or just the part where light has reached since my birth? Don't laugh; it's an important question.
You need a genetic sample [of Christ]
Acquire a Catholic who has just taken communion and induce him to vomit, thereby producing a viable sample of body and blood.
Who says science and faith aren't compatible?
Step into a huge movement. Don't Tread In Me.
Certainly does need debugging...you're missing a close paren in both versions.