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Scientist create 'alien' organism in a lab

hawkwing43hawkwing43 Member Posts: 1,701 Arc User
edited May 2014 in Ten Forward
I seen this in a bad movie once. Scientist make new life, new life escapes the test tube, and new begans to eat people. lol

:D

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/new-life-scientists-create-first-semisynthetic-organism-9333371.html
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  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Time to seed Mars.
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Intersting. 6 base pairs...could be useful.
  • saihung423saihung423 Member Posts: 548 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    They genetically modified e. coli.


    I guess it wasn't enough of a problem already? lol


    I don't get warm and fuzzy over this, not saying it isn't good...but...
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    saihung423 wrote: »
    They genetically modified e. coli.


    I guess it wasn't enough of a problem already? lol


    I don't get warm and fuzzy over this, not saying it isn't good...but...

    The extra base pairs don't do anything, they're just in a loose plasmid. If it escapes, in one generation it just reverts to its natural form. It can't reproduce the extra base pairs on its own, it needs an external supply of them and a protein produced by an algae - if either one is taken away, you've got normal standard e. coli which is literally everywhere in the world already.


    That's usually why e.coli is used for this kind of thing. It's so prevalent in the world that short of rubbing the petri dish directly on vegetables at the supermarket (it's on most of the meat already) you pretty much can't meaningfully increase the level of contamination in the world.
  • saihung423saihung423 Member Posts: 548 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I'm not scared, but my beard is...and I have to respect the beards feelings.


    Seriously though, I always get the willies when reading stuff like this.

    The rational side of my BRAINZ!! says, "Don't worry." While the more creative and emotional side of my BRAINZ!! says, "Run away! Run away!"
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    God creates bacteria, God destroys bacteria, God creates man, man destroys God, man creates bacteria...
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  • jestersagejestersage Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Between google's skynet and proto-terminator, and this? It's sounds like a not funny B-movie.
  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    God creates bacteria, God destroys bacteria, God creates man, man destroys God, man creates bacteria...

    Cryptic creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat man, Cryptic inherits the earth.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    hevach wrote: »
    The extra base pairs don't do anything, they're just in a loose plasmid. If it escapes, in one generation it just reverts to its natural form. It can't reproduce the extra base pairs on its own, it needs an external supply of them and a protein produced by an algae - if either one is taken away, you've got normal standard e. coli which is literally everywhere in the world already.


    That's usually why e.coli is used for this kind of thing. It's so prevalent in the world that short of rubbing the petri dish directly on vegetables at the supermarket (it's on most of the meat already) you pretty much can't meaningfully increase the level of contamination in the world.
    Yeah really, you inhale them every time you take a breath.
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  • saihung423saihung423 Member Posts: 548 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    My nose hairs and mustachio filter them out.
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Yeah really, you inhale them every time you take a breath.

    Oh man, really? That's it, going to stop breathing from this day forth!
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  • chrisbrown12009chrisbrown12009 Member Posts: 790 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    Oh man, really? That's it, going to stop breathing from this day forth!

    Something happen to STO? Iconians.

    Something happen to icnoians? E coli.
  • kaloriaa4kaloriaa4 Member Posts: 86 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    God creates bacteria, God destroys bacteria, God creates man, man destroys God, man creates bacteria...

    God resurrects from dead, God gets mad and destroys man with this?
  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Fun facts about E. coli, for anyone scared by this.

    We know more about E. coli than any other organism on earth, bar none. They're used in experiments due to their easy nutrition and living requirements (I have worked with them, and made some glow (quite literally)), and only some strains are virulent. The virulent ones live in your gut, where they are harmless to you. However, if they go anywhere else in you, you will likely die. Happy thoughts.
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  • hunterkiller64hunterkiller64 Member Posts: 94 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    whats next geneticly modified ppl :eek:
    kaloriaa4 wrote: »
    God resurrects from dead, God gets mad and destroys man with this?

    no it'll be khan!!!!:eek::D
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    hunterkiller64 wrote: »
    whats next geneticly modified ppl :eek:



    no it'll be khan!!!!:eek::D

    One of the more interesting theories I've read is the next thing in human evolution is we will be divided into 2 subspecies. Tall humans and short humans.

    With tall people coupling with other tall people, and short people coupling with short people, the genetic branching will (again, theoretically), result in 2 different kinds of humans, two subspecies.

    I found that interesting.
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  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    hunterkiller64 wrote: »
    whats next geneticly modified ppl :eek:

    Well, we do have gene therapy being developed. You take a virus, stuff some new DNA in it, then let it go around a person's body and fix broken genes. I think that counts as genetic modification.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    azniadeet wrote: »
    Cryptic creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat man, Cryptic inherits the earth.

    Yea verily.
  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    One of the more interesting theories I've read is the next thing in human evolution is we will be divided into 2 subspecies. Tall humans and short humans.

    With tall people coupling with other tall people, and short people coupling with short people, the genetic branching will (again, theoretically), result in 2 different kinds of humans, two subspecies.
    Yes, but on the other hand, I've also heard that humans apparently have an unconscious desire to create normal-sized offspring, so when the height gets too extreme, the extremely tall end up pairing up with the extremely short again.
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  • lilchibiclarililchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    This isn't really "creating life"--this is taking an organism and inserting an extra gene into it that doesn't actually do anything.

    I'll start calling it "creating life" when the researchers start custom-assembling the organism's genome from beginning to end, made entirely out of genes that the researchers have selected (even if those genes already exist somewhere in nature and are merely being copypasted into the test organism).
  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    So...when do I become a Jedi? That's all that matters!
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    centersolace wrote: »
    Yea verily.

    When did Cryptic ever create dinosaurs? Dinosaurs had feathers. I didn't see any large animals with feathers in STO.
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  • catstarstocatstarsto Member Posts: 2,149 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    wat about tacos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ezkxX_9gsY
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited May 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    When did Cryptic ever create dinosaurs? Dinosaurs had feathers. I didn't see any large animals with feathers in STO.

    Xindi Avians...

    Oh dammit, not yet :mad:.
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  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    fmgtorres1979 wrote: »
    So...when do I become a Jedi? That's all that matters!

    There shall be two subspecies of humans, the jedi and the Khans.
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    crashdragon wrote: »
    Who can guess at what my dirty little mind thought the title said, and how I became quickly disappointed?

    Alien TRIBBLE?
  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    crashdragon wrote: »
    Oh, thank god! I thought I was the only one here with a dirty mind. :D

    No, I have one too but I save it for later.
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