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Don’t worry, synthetic life doesn’t work very well without evolution to tune it into a useful ecological niche. Venter already did something similar. Tampering
by circles_for-day 2y ago
Don’t worry, synthetic life doesn’t work very well without evolution to tune it into a useful ecological niche. Venter already did something similar.
Tampering with existing viruses and symbionts so they can escape their current minima in the fitness landscape is the more dangerous thing.
- koeng 2y agoIn this case, it is literally the Venter genome, just with removed tRNAs / codon sets. I'm collaborating with them on it (they're just doing the final transformation).