Generating the synthetic life
Recently Craig Venter, the pioneering US geneticist, has made the announce regarding the conclusion of his work: creating the artificial life.
He and his team had used an artificially synthesized genome to bring back to life a bacterium that had its own genetic material scooped out.
How this experiment will interfere with our future life, is difficult to say now. However, Venter said that he asked for an ethical review before starting this experiment.
We have to think to the good points of his work: creating better vaccines or creating organisms able to make fuel are few directions how we may use his experiment.
Unfortunately, on the other side is standing – the creation of other living species. Or maybe, we will be able to find a way to ‘improve’ our human specie (?!).
Julian Savulescu, professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, said: “Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity’s history, potentially peeking into its destiny. He is not merely copying life artificially … or modifying it radically by genetic engineering. He is going towards the role of a God: creating artificial life that could never have existed naturally.”
However, the impact is huge and the result will definitely affect our life. Let’s hope to not say after a while – how someone said – ‘Goodbye homo sapiens … hello homo syntheticus’.
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