This news is the preamble to so many science-fiction horror stories, and the scariest thing they can mention is intellectual property laws.
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Every futurology post feels like part of a news report montage at the beginning of a post-apocalyptic movie.
We still have researchers...with funding even? Huh...
Wow you took over three years to prove this was correct. A turtle could finish this race before you can save yourselves over a trillion dollars.
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HOMUNCULUS HOORAY
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If you didn't read the article, don't get too worked up - it's a cell raised in a bath of ready-made cell organelles, which it can absorb and use, basically.
It's still impressive, given what the state of the art was, but don't expect it growing on a damp spot near you anytime soon.
Zombie apocalypse for Christmas then.
A CELL DIVIDES AND MULTIPLIES
A STRANGE MUTATION OVERRIDES
AND CARBON-COPIES INTO FOOOOUUUUR
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this can be used to further prove that evolutionary design and not some 'Divine Rights Of Kings God' design was the thing that made us who we are today. For all species, not only humans.
Not that a god or Gods dont exist. But why are we alloweing capitalists to tell us that 'The gods or God has chosen for some to be poor and frail and for others to be needlessly rich and obese?'
Why are we choosing to listen and accepting thejr conservative ideologies?
Parenti said it before: "All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, why must they be provided with so many artificial privileges under the law, so many bailouts, subsidies and other special considerations - at our expense? Their "nat urally superior talents" include unprincipled and illegal subterfuge such as price-fixing, mass m%%der, stock manipulation, insider trading, fraud, tax evasion, the legal enforcement of unfair competition, ecological spoliation, harmful products and unsafe work conditions. One might expect naturally superior people not to act in such rapacious and venal ways. Differences in talent and capacity as might exist between individuals do not excuse the crimes and injustices that are endemic to the corporate business system."
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came here to post this lol, nice! I love it when somebody has already beat me to posting a fascinating article!
Michael Lynch (opens a new tab), an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University who was also not involved in the study, agreed. It is “a synthetic biology tour de force,” he said. However, he also cautioned against over-hyping the cell since it’s not yet self-sustaining.
Once the synthetic cells were created, her students and others started calling them Adamala cells — a moniker she hated. She insisted that they name the cells after anything else, jokingly suggesting potatoes. So her students started calling them spudcells. “I’m Polish, I’m mostly made of potatoes, so that’s fine with me,” Adamala said.
And Thus They Were Known Throughout The Land Forever After As Spudcells!!!
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