'I hope they can make something that will do stuff I don't feel like doing.'

Where's the need? just hang a shingle out your door that reads 'bienvenidos aqui! se trabajando no mio' then sit back n relax

Ok, I happen to have the fortune of being married to a molecular biologist and she agrees that the article doesn't make a lot of sense. It is really hard to tell what they are so excited about. So the genetically engineered a bacteria into the bacteria they started with? What's the big deal? Why would that prove anything?

I'm married to a used car saleswoman, and she says bid low.

I think this is very interesting, but just for the mere philosophical conjecture. What is 'synthetic life'? I'm not sure that if 'life' is truly created, that it can ever be synthetic.

Isn't this the same process they used to clone cells in the old days before pcr?

Wotak

Count yer days, boys. We have about 10 years left until gray goo. The freaking biotech industry are like blind kittens in a scary forest, and the humanity's attached to their tails....

I'm not sure this is the first step

I'm not sure they were scientists

' They gene-engineered the replacement chromosome to resist an antibiotic'

Sweet, soon we shall be knee deep in invulnerable disease-causing bacteria, I hope to catch both cholera and smallpox.