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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
