Synthetic Life

Creating Synthetic Life premieres June 3 at 8 PM on Science Channel. World-renowned scientist Dr. J. Craig Venter announced on May 20 that he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) became the first in history to synthetically create a living, self-replicating cell. The news holds groundbreaking potential for solutions to a host of global challenges, including generating new food sources, pharmaceuticals and vaccines; cleaning up pollution; creating new energy sources; producing clean water; and more. Science Channel is exclusively bringing viewers inside Dr. Venters pioneering quest to produce life synthetically in CREATING SYNTHETIC LIFE. Over the course of five years, only Science Channel cameras captured the failures, successes and breakthrough moments of Dr. Venter, Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, Dr. Clyde Hutchison and JCVI researchers as they meticulously sought to create a synthetic single-celled organism.

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[canada995]

take that GOD

[miniontemple]

Anyone know where I can watch this? I missed it the other day.

[GuyLakeman]

man messed with nuclear power ... read the history of the early "unforeseen" mistakes - learning?

Research for the good of mankind or is it called greed and money ? From agriculture through industrialisation through nuclear it was money ... and now genetics and nanotechnology ... money ??? who is funding this ??? "the people" for "the people" ??? or the elite for the elite ... "the people" certainly have had their money homes and possessions taken from them so its not them!

[pcdsgh]

@miniontemple this is the full version: (related videos)

/watch?v=JdGRITKYZTQ

although you might have seen it already.

[alienisuntverus]

Man plays with fire-civilization

Man messes with crops-agriculture

Man captures animals-domestication

Man fools around with lightning-modern technology

Man messes with DNA-vaccinations

Man creates life-

We've always been messing with the world around us in ways that, at the time, seemed like it would be the end of man. Yet, the more we tweek our surroundings, the more benefits we get. I say let them make the cells and we'll see what happens.

[hootyhaha]

About a year ago on Discovey Science or Nat. Geo. there was a show like BRINK, Sci-Fi Science. There was a segment in the sow that talked about how making food in a computer or other object (just like in the jetsons) would be a possibility very soon because they did it. They made a very simple food pattie using a computer. They also made a very elementary mechanical object. Thy pulled out of this microwave looking box. And it was all programmed, the computer sythesized atoms in their place.

[JonBj2]

IT'S ALIVE!!!

[DiosanXaquerry]

@ShawnRavenfire WOW !!!! thats deep !!!!

[teamramrod456]

@Kirbiiable hey you know you want a zombie apocalypse...who doesnt?

[Kirbiiable]

@teamramrod456 ... Zombie cells... What does the future hold for this world? ...

[erik616berg]

How much do you think it cost Venter to get this infomercial on the air? Definitely not Nova, more like a product launch press conference...