Living cell powered by software – Reverse Engineering the Genetic Engineering

Computing has made it possible to create a synthetic living cell. Researchers at J Craig Venter Institute were successfully able to transplant genetic software to the host cell which would then grow naturally but will behave as dictated by the artificial DNA.

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Mankind has reached to a level of creating technology powered life forms and this is where the scariest thing lies as these new creations are now able to think. What if they go against their creator ?

The ethical storm got triggered soon after this invention and researchers and critics are in discussions on whether to allow the process into the ecology.

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