Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms

[727Sky]

Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms

From the moment life gained a foothold on Earth its story has been written in a DNA code of four letters. With G, T, C and A - the molecules that pair up in the DNA helix - the lines between humans and all life on Earth are spelled out.

Now, the first living organisms to thrive with an expanded genetic code have been made by researchers in work that paves the way for the creation and exploitation of entirely new life forms.Scientists in the US modified common E coli microbes to carry a beefed-up payload of genetic material which, they say, will ultimately allow them to program how the organisms operate and behave.

The work is aimed at making bugs that churn out new kinds of proteins which can be harvested and turned into drugs to treat a range of diseases. But the same technology could also lead to new kinds of materials, the researchers say.
In a report published on Monday, the scientists describe the modified microbes as a starting point for efforts to “create organisms with wholly unnatural attributes and traits not found elsewhere in nature.” The cells constitute a “stable form of semi-synthetic life” and “lay the foundation for achieving the central goal of synthetic biology: the creation of new life forms and functions,” they add.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017...life-forms

[guohua]

That's almost Scary. Just think of the Nasty Little Bugs (diseases) they could create.

[Mystic Wanderer]

What you want to bet they put this crap in vaccines to test it out on unsuspecting "test subjects"? 

Shit like this is why I don't trust the western medical industry!