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Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mad-science dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute are potentially one step closer to creating life. In an experiment they recently created enzymes that can replicate and evolve. 'It kind of blew me away,' said team member Tracey Lincoln of the Scripps Research Institute, who is working on her Ph.D. 'What we have is non-living, but we've been able to show that it has some life-like properties, and that was extremely interesting.'"

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  1. wtf? by Anthony_Cargile · · Score: 5, Funny

    What we have is non-living, but we've been able to show that it has some life-like properties, and that was extremely interesting

    I bet robots would fascinate these people.

    1. Re:wtf? by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

      How many self-replicating-self-assembling robots have you seen...?

      I see them everywhere. On the street, at the mall, at work. They don't even know they're self-replicating-self-assembling robots.

    2. Re:wtf? by Shikaku · · Score: 4, Funny

      Obligatory XKCD comic:

      http://xkcd.com/387/

    3. Re:wtf? by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Funny

      WTF? Is that the best you can do? Your Slashdot license please...

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  2. Oblig by rehtonAesoohC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Movie quote:

    Male Character: "God creates dinosaurs. God kills dinosaurs. Man kills God. Man creates dinosaurs."
    Female Character: "Dinosaurs eat man... woman inherits the earth."

    Hah!

  3. Finally... by zwekiel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll finally be one step closer to creating my race of manbearpigs.

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  4. We were so close... by andrewd18 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Researcher quoted as saying: "I was so close... I took her out to eat, paid for the movie, laid on the charm as heavy as I could, but it wasn't enough. However, I do feel that I'm one step closer to creating life."

  5. Obligatory by girlintraining · · Score: 3, Funny

    Over half the world population has been able to create life for some time. Aren't you all a little late to the party? -_-

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    1. Re:Obligatory by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Funny

      Over half the world population has been able to create life for some time. Aren't you all a little late to the party? -_-

      Aren't you be glad that you'd finally be able to create life without the services of a woman?

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  6. Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life!! by Hojima · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean some scientist out there almost got laid!? This IS one for the headlines! I just hope we'll be able to replicate the results with ease. God knows how many infeasible experiments big organizations have dangled in front of my low budget lab.

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  7. Re:More conception jokes please! by GabriellaKat · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because most men on /. can't last more then 8 min when trying to conceive.

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  8. Re:More conception jokes please! by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny
    OK, here you go:

    What we have is non-living, but we've been able to show that it has some life-like properties, and that was extremely interesting.

    Great they cloned Keanu Reeves...

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  9. Easy? by GoddessOfDeath · · Score: 3, Funny

    Easy? You must be new here.

  10. Re:Hopefully... by thewils · · Score: 3, Funny

    In an experiment they recently created enzymes that can replicate and evolve.

    If there's a chance it can evolve into Natalie Portman we're on the right track at least...

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  11. Re:Proof of ID by Nathrael · · Score: 3, Funny

    But...if they weren't there in the first place, we would never have existed and thus wouldn't be able to send them back in time, and thus, we would not have evolved from them and could not...argh, time paradoxon, cognitive dissona%/!!7?NO CARRIER[/lameattemptathumor]

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  12. Steps to creating life often missed by nerds by SupremoMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. Get woman

    2. Sleep with woman

    3. ????

    4. Create life