| 2010-05-21 10:44:49
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| 10:44:49 | MoEnzyme | :) |
| 10:45:03 | MoEnzyme | with a little bit of cream its a decent brew. |
| 10:45:04 | Lucifer | I'm already in long-weekend mode |
| 10:45:21 | Lucifer | I guess irish coffee has whiskey |
| 10:45:30 | MoEnzyme | similar concept. |
| 10:45:32 | Lucifer | maybe vodka makes it russian coffee |
| 10:45:41 | Lucifer | google: vodka coffee recipe |
| 10:45:42 | googlebot | googling for vodka coffee recipe |
| 10:45:42 | googlebot | http://www.drinksmixer.com/cat/4486/ |
| 10:46:29 | MoEnzyme | not quite as sweet as those, but yummy. |
| 10:46:48 | Lucifer | coffee flavoured vodka sounds yummy |
| 10:50:10 | MoEnzyme | Church warns cell scientists not to play God - ROME — Catholic Church officials said Friday that the recently created first synthetic cell could be a positive development if correctly used, but warned scientists that only God can create life. |
| 10:50:14 | MoEnzyme | http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/7016138.html |
| 10:51:32 | MoEnzyme | * MoEnzyme wonders why this particular cell is "synthetic" where previous GM organisms are not. |
| 10:51:51 | MoEnzyme | I guess its just a media hype thing. |
| 11:01:32 | MoEnzyme | hmmm, I'm going to have to find a more technically detailed article on it. I suppose they are saying that he created the genome "from scratch", but I thought I heard on NPR that he included a lot of yeast DNA for filler. |
| 11:04:11 | MoEnzyme | Ah Bluderov already posted something on it . . . http://www.churchofvirus.org/bbs/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=43393;start=0 |
| 11:07:44 | MoEnzyme | "To complete this final stage in the nearly 15 year process to construct and boot up a synthetic cell, JCVI scientists began with the accurate, digitized genome of the bacterium, M. mycoides. The team designed 1,078 specific cassettes of DNA that were 1,080 base pairs long. These cassettes were designed so that the ends of each DNA cassette overlapped each of its neighbors by 80bp. The cassettes were made according to JCVI’s |
| 11:08:33 | MoEnzyme | "To complete this final stage in the nearly 15 year process to construct and boot up a synthetic cell, JCVI scientists began with the accurate, digitized genome of the bacterium, M. mycoides. The team designed 1,078 specific cassettes of DNA that were 1,080 base pairs long. |
| 11:08:35 | MoEnzyme | These cassettes were designed so that the ends of each DNA cassette overlapped each of its neighbors by 80bp. The cassettes were made according to JCVI’s specifications by the DNA synthesis company, Blue Heron Biotechnology. " |
| 11:09:54 | MoEnzyme | I see, it seems that they more or less borrowed the structure/organization scheme of the original DNA and just plugged in their own sequences into that pattern. |
| 11:10:56 | MoEnzyme | So the cell would still "know" what adresses to start reading from only the content at those addresses would be different. |
| 11:14:49 | MoEnzyme | That way they don't have to come up with a completely different soup of M-RNA, just use what the cell already has, and since the DNA is organized the same way if otherwise different content, the cell still "knows" where to start. |
| 11:15:56 | MoEnzyme | It seems that a completely synthetic cell would start with a synthetic M-RNA soup too . . . but perhaps that's a bit too much nitpicking. |
| 11:18:41 | MoEnzyme | "“We can now begin working on our ultimate objective of synthesizing a minimal cell containing only the genes necessary to sustain life in its simplest form. This will help us better understand how cells work.” |
| 11:19:37 | MoEnzyme | THAT would be a truly synthetic cell IMO. |
| 11:20:40 | MoEnzyme | however lacking the redundancy of more "natural" cells, its ability to endlessly replicate without assistance may be somewhat limited. |
| 11:21:17 | MoEnzyme | However that would seem to solve the "grey goo" problem posed by nanotech skeptics. |
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