Shide and Prame » The End http://aidan.rfm.co.nz/blog Aidan's digital life Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:52:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Scientists Create First Synthetic Cell – WSJ.com http://aidan.rfm.co.nz/blog/2010/05/scientists-create-first-synthetic-cell-wsj-com/ http://aidan.rfm.co.nz/blog/2010/05/scientists-create-first-synthetic-cell-wsj-com/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 01:05:39 +0000 aidan http://aidan.rfm.co.nz/blog/?p=165 WSJ has an article on how commercial scientists have announced their creation of a cell with a synthetic genome.  They call it a synthetic cell, which I think is a bit of a stretch, but I’m just as terrified.

Scientists Create First Synthetic Cell

Pretty exciting medicinal and industrial possibilities, but it doesn’t take much thinking to conceive of a how the dark side of mankind’s nature might apply it to warfare.  I was already worried about a “grey goo” style end of the world, but now I wonder if I might live long enough to actually witness it happen.

*shiver*

]]> http://aidan.rfm.co.nz/blog/2010/05/scientists-create-first-synthetic-cell-wsj-com/feed/ 1