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| - | * [http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~kouznet/life6000.pdf Life with a price of 6000 €]
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| - | Now we see it could be cheaper, but it will need a great intellectual impact. So, we’re opened for '''sponsors and relationships'''.
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| - | === Comments ===
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| - | As I understand it, the idea is to create a "life
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| - | automaton" consisting of 6 proteins? That is what I took
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| - | out of your proposal. That seems quite ambitioned, but I
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| - | can't really judge it, and even if it is quite
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| - | ambitioned, that does not mean that it is bad, of
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| - | My understanding says that you are using 6000 € for
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| - | denovo synthesis of 6 genes required for making minimal
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| - | life. Right?
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| - | So, what if after all the simulations and tests on the
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| - | computer, you order the DNA for minimal life and it
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| - | turns out that it doesn't work... What will you do then?
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| - | This is because biology is unpredictable and you must
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| - | not assume that the DNA which you order will work in the
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| - | first time itself... You must keep some backup money or
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| - | plans...
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| - | You have to separate specifically the general and specific
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| - | objectives to long and short time; implications, obstacles
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| - | OK, fine.. So you want to go in a completely different
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| - | direction by creating alternative life.. Good.. All the
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| - | best for this project.
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| - | Well, if you want to go to the extremes then are you
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| - | limiting yourself to already established phenomena such
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| - | as DNA, membranes, etc. You may want to adopt a
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| - | completely new and novel ideas which might be simpler
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| - | than DNA and other stuff of the normal cell.
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| - | So, keep all the options open. Research the literature
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| - | well and create Artificial Life...
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| - | === Questions and answers ===
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| - | * - Dilettante: "Where is a place of synthetic biology here - good old gene engineering > bio-nanotechnology > artificial life > artificial intelligence?" <br> - Expert: "Hmmm..."
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| - | * - Professor: "What is new in Synthetic Biology?" <br> - Undergraduate student: "Wiki!!!"
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| - | * On a disco field: <br> - "Did you hear about Synthetic Biology?" <br> - "Oh yes, it’s like a HypeHope!"
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| - | * People in a street: <br> - "What is a synthetic biology - science or technology?" <br> - "Expedition."<br> - "No, it’s a new culture."<br> - "Yes, it’s an art of self-modification!"<br> - "Hmm, I think it will be a time of Lamarckian evolution."
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| - | * - Shrödinger: “What is life?” <br> - Alice: “It’s a play where rules are constantly changed.” <br> - Correspondent: “...and, who does manage these rules, God?” <br> - PhD student: “God is a notation x operating outside the visible world.” <br> - iGEM instructor: “The rules are managed by those people from MIT”
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| - | * In lab <br> - Skeptic: “What is synthetic in Synthetic Biology?” <br> - Pessimist: “I think it’s more constructive than synthetic.” <br> - Optimist: “I hope it will be ultimately completely synthetic.”
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