Craig Venter - Creating Artificial Life

[poeticriot777]

Wow... This it the what people were making such a fuss about?.. There is no "creating life" period... Make your own bacteria... It's like me putting a light bulb in the socket and saying, BAM! I HAVE CREATED ELECTRICITY! I AM GOD!!!

[poeticriot777]

Well it looks like they've finally done it... Humans "created life"... I was sent here by an angry atheist who was yelling at "rednecks, mentally inferior, Zeus worshipers, (insert any stupid degrading Christian slang)" and he was gonna prove us all wrong with this video... Wow they can turn a bacteria into a virus... The life was always there... It's just genetics people...

[nosaaj]

HELL YA! I want you eggheads to make me a sexy blonde cylon heeeehaw!

[chocomuffin93]

This is truly facinating! A bit scary, but still, hats of for this guy!

[BibleWinScienceFail]

venter is a showman and has created nothing new.

[kevmanev]

@BibleWinScienceFail get some knowledge retard

[EnigmaHood]

@BibleWinScienceFail Your sn reveals how stupid you are.

[BibleWinScienceFail]

@EnigmaHood my sn? you call me stupid and you can not even spell! LOL. did you mean sin? it takes real skill to muck up a three letter word. well done!

[EnigmaHood]

@BibleWinScienceFail "sn" is an acronym you idiot. I won't bother tell you what it means, go look it up. And for someone who would harp on something as meaningless as spelling, which I made no errors in, you didn't even bother to capitalize correctly.

[BibleWinScienceFail]

@EnigmaHood sn, ooh let me guess. small nose? short name? enlighten me.

[KevinLounsberry]

@BibleWinScienceFail S.N. stands for "screen name" you highly highly intelligent individual.

And in response to your initial comment. He has successfully built a fully functioning living, reproducing organism with real DNA, by starting off with basic non-living chemicals.

Life from non-life

Prior to this, all life this complex has had parents. This life form is synthetic and is there for new. Not to mention the new technology developed and used to make it.

[BibleWinScienceFail]

@KevinLounsberry zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­z

[KevinLounsberry]

@BibleWinScienceFail Don't worry, I think I can understand him here. It seems that BibleWinScienceFail is trying to say he's too dumb to understand basic scientific principals and that moderately complex thinking puts him to sleep.

[charmander4533]

@BibleWinScienceFail You don't deserve the time of people who watch these kinds of things. Your name says it all on your ignorant position.

[Logixmaster]

@BibleWinScienceFail you clearly don't understand anything that was said.

[Logixmaster]

@BibleWinScienceFail just because you don't have any evidence to support your own preconceived belief doesn't mean you need to insult an established method of discovery.... which, by the way, has brought us medicine and technology (not prayer)

[RespectMyHate]

This guy didn't create life.

Here my qualification for creating life.

You start with elements in thier raw forms as in found on the earth.

You take all the elements required for life in thier raw forms and from there create life.

Build life brick by brick.

If anybody can do this I will shake their hand and say "Great Job you created life" and pat them on the back.

But this guy manipulated DNA, and took his shitty DNA and injected it into a bacteria, This is just life manipulation.

[Phyerbyrd]

Shitty? It works fine. This is a new species of bacteria, no matter how you look at it. Let's see you do any better.

[nerdyharry]

my, what a kindly-looking old man. i mean, just look at how incredibly reputable that face is. why, if ever i could choose someone to capitalize upon the laboratory production of made-to-order pathogen genomes, it would want this simply wonderful motherfucker to stand to benefit more than anyone else on the planet. really. we are now living in a michael crichton novel.

[HaliacetusLeuco]

~+~+~*

[yellowhue30]

Craig's team has succeeded in creating a synthetic cell May 2010! Congratulations! Viola! Life!

[chuckapup]

They're probably going to make a human one day, then we are all dead.

[brxust]

@chuckapup

You've watched too many bad sci-fi's.

[AgentAni]

Totally, truly awesome.

[Dr34dmoc]

Wow!!! That is amazing. It sounds an awful lot like INTELLIGENT DESIGN. Lawlz. The cell and the DNA did nothing on their own, but with the help of an intelligent designer...hmmm. Interesting.

[brxust]

@Dr34dmoc

If by intelligent design you mean Craig Venter designing synthetic life, sure.

[Dr34dmoc]

@brxust Yes Craig is the intelligent designer, so now tell me how this proves life can form from non living things. Cells plus dna is simply copying an existing design. The warden on Prison Break built a Taj Mahal in his office based on the original design, does that mean the original building sprouted from nothing? Craig Venter adds existing dna to an existing cell and OH MY GOD!!!! it's evolution. Stupid.

[brxust]

@Dr34dmoc

I never said "life can form from non living things," dumbass. I said "designing synthetic life," which is technically what Venter did, placing a synthetic genome into a natural cell.

[yellowhue30]

@brxust Yes.It's creating lifeforms.. ..species.

[yellowhue30]

@Dr34dmoc Life should arise quite often from non-living things in our universe. It's chemical reactions repeated infinitely as a function of time, over nearly infinite space (13.4 billion c3 and growing.. ..the space needed is 1/10,000 the width of a human hair), Not to say anyone knows all the variables of probability of life, we don't, but thanks to Craig's team we've learned one really substantial positive for life in the universe,and that is that even hominids can create it.

[osker450]

resident evil here we come they should not fuck about createing shit like this

[zzzIdividedbyzerozzz]

@osker450 Perhaps we never should have created the computer, or T.V., or airconditioning.... maybe we should all go back to living in the woods.

[eirikmikal]

Yes, Cylons are coming

[eirikmikal]

Cylons might be coming of age.

[Freshhhhh1982]

@invista360 DNA technology is well over 40 years old. Proteomics is the future.

[zzzIdividedbyzerozzz]

@invista360 OK? It was first noticed 300 years ago, it was a natural disease. GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT.

[KevinLounsberry]

@invista360 This being the first synthetic life form ever, I highly doubt what you said could have happened

[DaithiDublin]

@krod73cr & @Darryl19760517 I don't want to pollute, but I need to drive. I'm confident that science is the most likely source of a solution to that dilemma. It's hard to imagine a point in time where science can say 'OK, we know everything now, time to sit back and take it easy for a change.' I doesn't help to object so quickly whenever something comes along that you disagree with. There are lots of dead ends in science. The winner is proven correct over time, and comes to be accepted even by..

[DaithiDublin]

...the competition. Science is the process of finding that winner, but it is *also* the process that overturns previous winners when someone manages to prove them false.

Scientists are just human beings like you and me who live on this planet and have the same interest as you and me in not destroying it. Unlike you or me (sorry, I'm presuming we're all grasping to understand what these people are actually telling us!) they also try very hard to protect and improve it. I say, leave them at it.

[Sachyadesh]

why not possible ... if a sperm has enough potential to build skull, kidneys , intestines, gegntic organs, brain , heart, etc etc why wouldnt this be possible ???

a small seed can grow in to a big tree ... anythings possible ...

whats important is the after effects ... have to wait and watch ... i mean thats all we can do :)

[ternens]

frak ! they gave birth to a frakkin cylon !

[bally28]

my first impressions of Craig Venters is that he's made of plastic...no emotions..no life....if the terminator was to return from the future..it's only mission wld be to destory Mr.Venters. shame.

[SuperU2tube]

Alastair Campbell beat him to it. Just look at Tony Blair and his other viral clones

[laurek01]

The synthetic development not only exists outside the sub atomic level, but also dependent on the dna of what it imitates. It has a predetermined function but the cell itself cannot sustain its own. Unless they can direct it a useful objective function independely, the find is a curse! It may destroy everything that comes across it.

[DaithiDublin]

Sorry tehknologik, that was supposed to be @TheGame5050. It was incredible a year ago, now it's astounding! ;-)

[DaithiDublin]

@krod73cr + @tehknologik There are lots of reasons why we need this. (his team actually succeeded, btw. They announced it today) Hopefully one day they'll be able to produce an organism that eats oil slicks from the sea or cO2 from the atmosphere. Or cancer tumours. Or a plant that grows in a desert or deep space. Regardless, Man has done what God never could: produce life from nothing and prove it too. No faith, no magic words, no blind obedience, no damnation or deliverance needed. Finally!

[Xadreos]

@DaithiDublin We've got those things already: the damnation, the deliverance, the blind obedience; It's called Christianity =P

[Darryl19760517]

@DaithiDublin what did he use to make the cell fresh air or DNA that already exists he has not created anything just modified an existing cell.if you take a Toyota engine and place it into a Ford bodies did you create a new car

[Phyerbyrd]

The organism that the cell turned into is completely new, it does not occur in nature.

[TheGame5050]

@krod73cr

well spoken

[TheGoldenbaboon]

So Beautiful,

So Dangerous...

[adakteen]

This is absolutely amazing. The implications of this new technology is endless.

[cpmc1]

This is exciting, but its also scarry. The further we go with science, the more things like this is becoming a reality.

[henrykitoy007]

celera and the human genome project by venter

[EstoSeAcaba]

NWO

[0100110101001011]

quaran's challenge here we come!!!!!!

[dmix09]

Software builds its own Hardware"

Heavy words.

[MumblingMickey]

It hasn't happened yet...but I'm just waiting with baited breath for the creationist idiots to jump on this video to either claim its not true, or it somehow proves their point... or that penguins eat green soup...or whatever other madness...

On the substantive point... is this cheap? can I order a a baby mammoth for my birthday?

[DanePax]

This is great stuff... I can see bio mechanical robotics, deep space exploration, Ai, and this converging somewhere in the future to create something horrific or magnificent. Certainly in a more frantic fashion than mobile voice communication, wireless data comms, the Internet, mobile computing and PMP's did.

You know what I mean?

[LordBLB]

It's only natural that this would 'evolve' to the point where it once was 'Natural Selection', and soon with by 'Artificial Selection'. If used properly, this could really help mankind in the future.

Wonderful times we live in!

[RoseCeriseFleur]

Interesting...

[sulljoh1]

Damn. Why does everybody on the internet think they know everything? There are some really dumb comments here from people who obviously know nothing about biology.

[CLSkill]

@sulljoh1 Like you.

[liquifiedart]

Nice. Now all they have to do is stop cheating, by using existing software and existint elements of code.

Where did the DNA code come from and who wrote it?

What about, Who organizes the new software to be put into play, Who constructs it? Who tells the hardware How to read new code? What came first the software or hardware?

hmmmm.

Better questions I say. The question's answers I have.

~Jedi Master

[Vire70]

Evolution.

[fragm3nted]

bacteria has the capacity to learn. something caused it to once ingest toxic waste, which benefited it somehow, so it continued as well as its offspring, and now it functions by only eating toxic waste.

[tremulent]

That is very inaccurate.

[holosys]

How does toxic waste eating bacterium know not to stray from toxic waste sites into surrounding suburban neighborhoods? How does a scientist tell these hungry bacteria not to feast on soft fleshy biological material?

I think the public is entitled to scientific answers to those questions before becoming guinea pigs for these zealous biologists. Military laboratories are challenged to contain bacteria and viruses in quarantined facilities costing taxpayers millions.

[grantywoo]

This man is going to create zombies. He must be stopped.

[13375p34k0r]

ZOMBIES!!!!!!

wooo darwinbots

[ThomJBooth]

Haha. =P

I've been waiting for a zombie outbreak for years now. =D

[grantywoo]

Im sure he will start it haha

[tehknologik]

That's truly incredible.