Perhaps this is how it ends?

Synthetic new base pair of DNA added to e coli bacterea and successful propigated for a few dozen divisions. What could go wrong?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38737693

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Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

Synthetic new base pair of DNA added to e coli bacterea and successful propigated for a few dozen divisions. What could go wrong?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38737693

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Indubitably.

I worked with Floyd when I was at Scripps. This is, like, the second or third iteration if these "recombinant" bugs. He's been working on this for a while. Craig Ventner is working on an analogous system just down the road.

Holy shit, what do you do? You must be smaht as hell.
It says this is the first time it has propigated. So wash those hands, kids.

^^^ something better than a Dentist?!?

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Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

Holy shit, what do you do? You must be smaht as hell.
It says this is the first time it has propigated. So wash those hands, kids.

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Well, I think that he now has his bugs liking and using his unnatural nucleotides as if there were natural base. Buy for this kind of system to work, you have to provide a supply of these bases in the growth medium. That's how e coli roll. This serves as a fail safe in the event these bugs made it out if the lab somehow.

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Originally Posted by Viva

Well, I think that he now has his bugs liking and using these unnatural nucleotides as if they were naturally occurring bases. But for this kind of system to work, you have to provide a supply of these bases in the growth medium. That's how e coli roll. This also serves as a fail safe in the event these bugs made it out if the lab somehow.

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You don't say.

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Originally Posted by Viva

I worked with Floyd when I was at Scripps. This is, like, the second or third iteration if these "recombinant" bugs. He's been working on this for a while. Craig Ventner is working on an analogous system just down the road.

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LOL is Ventner planning on cloning an uberversion of His Awesomeness?

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Originally Posted by iceman

You don't say.

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Tried editing on my phone...yeah, I'm really fucking smart.

Whoa, this is like Plum Island meets Frankenstein. I figured it would be an asteroid, or thousands of Bill Belichick clones descending from a navy, white and red Death Star that would do us in.

There are bacteria everywhere. Crawling all over your skin. Fungi, molds, yeasts. Mites in your pillow. Scampering over your naked body as you lay in helpless slumber. They are growing. Millions more every second.
What was that?
Ahhhhhhhhhh!

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Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

There are bacteria everywhere. Crawling all over your skin. Fungi, molds, yeasts. Mites in your pillow. Scampering over your naked body as you lay in helpless slumber. They are growing. Millions more every second.
What was that?
Ahhhhhhhhhh!

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Its a bit like TGR in that we're familiar with these creatures.
These are new things. Like when all the Ttips people came over.

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Originally Posted by Viva

This serves as a fail safe in the event these bugs made it out if the lab somehow.

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I saw Jurassic Park, this shit doesn't work!

^^I'm sure the researchers have to wash their hands before leaving the lab.

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Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

Holy shit, what do you do? You must be smaht as hell.
It says this is the first time it has propigated. So wash those hands, kids.

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lets all say it together:

prop-A-gate.

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Originally Posted by Timberridge

Its a bit like TGR in that we're familiar with these creatures.
These are new things. Like when all the Ttips people came over.

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Are you one of Mitch's bitches? RIP Mitch.

http://youtu.be/-FIMvSp01C8

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Originally Posted by riser3

Are you one of Mitch's bitches? RIP Mitch.

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No, I've never tele'd in my life or have any desire to start.

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Originally Posted by Timberridge

No, I've never tele'd in my life or have any desire to start.

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Smart man.

But really, most of the crossover occurred long before your December2012 join date.

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Originally Posted by Mofro261

lets all say it together:

prop-A-gate.

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Thank you! Beat me to it.

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Originally Posted by Tri-Ungulate

Smart man.

But really, most of the crossover occurred long before your December2012 join date.

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I lurked for 5 years or so over here. 2012 was during one of the beginning of the end of the end outages for TTips. Funneh that the timber alias and I have the same join date.

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Originally Posted by Mofro261

lets all say it together:

prop-A-gate.

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Originally Posted by AaronWright

Thank you! Beat me to it.

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Whoops.
Prop-a-gate