On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 4:09:37 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > I think that if we want to have any shot at understanding reality we need > to be serious in our thinking. "Assembled in factories" sounds like you > just take atom by atom and put them together, which clearly is not what > happens. People start with already living cells and just modify them a > little bit. This is clearly anything but "assembled in factories". Is like > you take a picture of Mona Lisa, you modify 2 pixels in photoshop and you > claim that you painted Mona Lisa from zero. > > > That is not the way that synthetic biology technology is proceeding today in 2019.
There is some hybrid of taking pre-existing living cells combined with new materials (polymers), but actual molecular assembly of living cells is on the horizon, if not done already. - pt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
