Scientists Created First Synthetic Cell

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highwaystar101 said:

lestatdark said:

highwaystar101 said:

On topic: In case anyone is interested here is the paper.

I haven't read it yet, I will do it later. It's quite exciting that DNA can be synthetically produced, it really will open up a massive new area of research in Biology. The potential of this advance is phoenominal.

It isn't that mind-boggling actually. DNA in it's conception is a very simple molecule, made of a combination of four different Nucleotides which itself is separated into three parts: Phosphorous link, Sugar and Puryn/Pyrimidic base. Even Lipids and Proteins are more complex in it's conception than DNA

What's trully marvelous about DNA is the fact that it can hold all the information to create every molecule for a functional living being to exist. Just by pairing three simple nucleotide pairs into a codon to create aminoacids Nature's wonderfully simple in it's conception. 

I never said it was mind boggling . I know that the DNA isn't really that complicated and we can sequence a whole genome in a matter of days now. But what these people have done is an incredible breakthrough. It was very difficult logistically to produce an error free genome to transplant into the recipient cell, that's what's so great about this advance.

Yup, that's what I said on my first posts here

Being a student in biochemistry in the genomics field, this announcement was known for quite a while, but it trully stirred our university. Like Scoobes said, if we can somehow create, with a synthetic cell, a recombinant microorganism that has the same yield for genomic study as E.Coli or better, then a new age in genomics will unfold