At the moment, that manipulation and the process is limited only to single cells and can't be used in more complex organisms. And at the moment it can't actually be applied, existing only as a proof of concept. But the researchers are now looking at how to write the new genetic code onto RNA, which is used to turn DNA into proteins.
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More about DNA. Already subscribed? Log in. Just because we can, does it mean we should? Solomons time…. Look to our past to learn, look to our future to live! Les apprentis-sorciers doivent maitriser leurs limites! There is good science and there is bad science.
Even science proves the existence of God. Good science does not question the doing, nor try to be better than the Creator of all mankind! God is watching! And we praise Him that He is! The time is near! Another fake claim. Did they start with chemicals and synthesize all the parts themselves, which would be astounding, or did they just change and shuffle around existing structures, which is old hat….
Unfortunately, they only manipulates what was already in existence. Talk about the ultimate contradiction. Why would an all-powerful, all-knowing creator make us in His image, only to deny us any advancement beyond being stupid, primitive, fearful creatures? I am nowhere near the expertise level of these scientists.
But I am a generational Southern Baptist. Continue to seek the origins of life. Carry on…. Email address is optional. If provided, your email will not be published or shared. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. More on SciTechDaily. MTV April 1, at am Reply. Edward Gazsi April 1, at am Reply. Bonnie Davis April 1, at pm Reply. I hope this does not turn out to be the Frankenstein that eliminates its creators.
Cheri Toroni April 1, at pm Reply. Clavel jean-marc April 2, at am Reply. Love and Peace April 4, at am Reply. Shaun Spriggs April 5, at am Reply. Researchers synthesized the basic ingredients of RNA, a molecule from which the simplest self-replicating structures are made. Until now, they couldn't explain how these ingredients might have formed. RNA is now found in living cells, where it carries information between genes and protein-manufacturing cellular components. Scientists think RNA existed early in Earth's history, providing a necessary intermediate platform between pre-biotic chemicals and DNA, its double-stranded, more-stable descendant.
However, though researchers have been able to show how RNA's component molecules, called ribonucleotides, could assemble into RNA, their many attempts to synthesize these ribonucleotides have failed.
No matter how they combined the ingredients — a sugar, a phosphate, and one of four different nitrogenous molecules, or nucleobases — ribonucleotides just wouldn't form. Sutherland's team took a different approach in what Harvard molecular biologist Jack Szostak called a "synthetic tour de force" in an accompanying commentary in Nature.
Like other would-be nucleotide synthesizers, Sutherland's team included phosphate in their mix, but rather than adding it to sugars and nucleobases, they started with an array of even simpler molecules that were probably also in Earth's primordial ooze.
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