2010年6月1日星期二

“人造生命”触到了警戒线



20日,美国克雷格・文特尔研究所的研究人员声称,他们人工合成了一种细菌的脱氧核糖核酸(DNA),并将其植入另一个细菌体内。一个名叫“地球的朋友”的环境组织,谴责合成基因组是“危险的新技术,”称“文特尔应当停止进一步的研究,直到完备的监管措施出台。

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2 条评论:

吴大地 说...

"From the point of view of aesthetic and intellectual elegance, it is a bad experiment. But it is nevertheless a big discovery...It proves that sequencing and synthesizing DNA give us all the tools we need to create new forms of life."
—Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson on the Venter synthetic biology paper in Science, quoted in Edge.org.

吴大地 说...

"The price we will pay for this huge amplification of our technological prowess is probably an equal and opposite vulnerability. Welcome to the fast lane, humanity."

—Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University philosopher on the Venter synthetic biology paper in Science, quoted in Edge.org.