Woah!! We’re literally creating aliens now!!?? Scientists have achieved a 60-year-old dream to engineer life with an alien genetic code
“Romesberg believes that this breakthrough will create a toolkit for biologists to create new living organisms that can do things we’ve yet to dream of. The implications of such technology for society are on the same scale as those that have come from genetically engineering crops, the benefits of which have included boosted crop yields.
“The ability to tailor life to perform ‘unnatural’ functions raises limitless possibilities,” Romesberg said. “We could develop organisms that ‘eat’ oil and clean-up an oil spill, or maybe cells that migrate to specific tissues or organs and then secrete drugs only within those tissues…'”
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And limitless ethical issues Not that That’s a problem Right?