Lee Silver discusses synthetic life with Peter Jennings

[bravdos]

Well Doc Silver, me and the wife are having issues with having kids, I'd love to have a genetically engineered one made from us. It would be great to remove all the harmful things...propensity for diseases, etc. Make it the best of us, sort of thing. Possible?

[tehorix789]

And did it happen. Just this year with Craig Venter's group.

[efferelaxe]

O and it will come, and it will come fast. And it will rock all these fanatic relegious people out of their chairs. Science has prooved them wrong many times ( earth not the center of the universe,etc. ) but this would mean the final blow to their stronghold. The end of more than 1000 years of inquisition and turning people into retards. It is the first step to a whole new era. And with the last fanatic dead nothing will stop us to finally become solar, galactic and maybe universal.

[DJLorenzen]

Why do abc news sound like religious fanatics, talking about god? Make very little sense to me.

[shrynakesavan]

i love the way that whiny ass god believing journalist says " You don't know that..!"...thass so typical and hilarious....

[lsilver9]

This starting material is not cells, it's chemicals that are built into molecules -- DNA, proteins, carbohydrates, etc. -- that are then brought together (based on an understanding of biochemistry) to produce living systems.

[dinokaiser]

Cells are already alive, this is not from scratch.