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Location: Stockton on Tees
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Creating synthetic life
So what are your thoughts on this.
I think that it has massive potential esp in the area of disease prevention. But I'm also aware of the danger it could pose in the wrong hands. A fact that those involved in the early stages of this are all to aware of.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10134341
In a documentary shown on discovery earlier this year, one of the scientists was talking about writing suicide genes into the dna sequence, which would mean that if the organism wandered from its assigned environment, it would die instantly.