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Originally Posted by deltaguitar
Doesn't sound like they created the cell. They just reprogrammed it.
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They didn't even write a very good program from he sounds of it.
This type of news article is all sensationalism. They are basically tinkering with what already exists. They aren't creating anything.
In this article (
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37256799...ience-science/) they are quoted as saying
"We can write anything we want," said Arnold. "The problem is that we don't know what to write."
This raises the question of what they are "writing" for. The answer is that there is a machine (millions of different and highly specialized machines actually) that reads/writes and acts on the genetic code. Those claiming to have created a cell are like me changing some information on my hard disk and claiming that I have created a computer.
A good book related to this is
http://www.amazon.com/Signature-Cell...4392553&sr=8-1
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