<p>[A</a> step to artificial life: Manmade DNA powers cell - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://yhoo.it/aALDbT]A”>http://yhoo.it/aALDbT)</p>
<p>Cool beans, huh? A huge step in medicine and biotech, and I’m interested to see what this development does for humanity in the future.</p>
<p>Here it is on the NY Times.
[Synthetic</a> Bacterial Genome Takes Over Cell - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Synthetic Bacterial Genome Takes Over Cell - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html?ref=science)</p>
<p>Frankly I’m a little scared. :(</p>
<p>On the one hand: “Huh, people are willing to pay 40 million dollars to make a synthetic copy of DNA they could just get from the original microbe. Those people should be paying more taxes.”</p>
<p>On the other hand, [I’ve</a> head of this before.](<a href=“outpostuniverse.net”>outpostuniverse.net)</p>
<p>Guess I’d better buy a hazmat suit and start building that underground bunker.</p>
<p>I’m pretty happy to see it. 
This definitely puts more power into our hands, and if used productively could do a lot of cool stuff.</p>
<p>^ Key word: productively. The human race hasn’t always proven to be the best bearer of all this power. I do agree that it’s a huge step forward, but ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ and all that…</p>
<p>wait, I don’t get it. Is the cell’s DNA sequence completely made up? Or are the nucleotides not A, T, C, and G anymore? Are the nucleotides synthetic?</p>
<p>Of course the nucleotides are still A,T,C,G. It’s just synthetic though. They say it’s like a “computer”; it’s kinda weird. My guess is it’s like if you lost a leg you can replace it with a synthetic leg.</p>
<p>So it’s nothing special? They just made A T C and G in a lab and put it in a DNA sequence?</p>
<p>After killing myself for the AP Bio test I’m all nerdy and stuff…</p>
<p>Well I’m sure it’s useful. I don’t know if this is correct, but it could replace some of the damaged DNA caused by the sun. I’m just taking what I know from basic bio and applying it here, so i’m not 100% sure.</p>
<p>^What’re you doing up at 2:25 in the morning? :P</p>
<p>Lol I can ask you the same thing xD And I’m up cuz I’m watching a movie lol</p>