Hacker News with Generative AI: Synthetic Biology

Cytoskeleton-functionalized synthetic cells with life-like mechanical features (nature.com)
The cytoskeleton is a crucial determinant of mammalian cell structure and function, providing mechanical resilience, supporting the cell membrane and orchestrating essential processes such as cell division and motility.
Science, Biology, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology
24 points by PaulHoule 31 days ago | 1 comments
Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn (the-scientist.com)
As synthetic biologists, we have spent the last few decades in awe of the breakthroughs in the field. In the last fifteen years, synthetic biologists have stored books, images, and even videos in DNA, developed the ability to modify and engineer genes with remarkable accuracy, and even created an organism with chromosome designed using a computer and synthesized in the lab.1-5
Biotechnology, Science, Synthetic Biology, Research, Ethics
305 points by conqueso 71 days ago | 240 comments
'Unprecedented risk': Scientists call for halt on 'mirror life' research (theguardian.com)
World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.
Science, Biology, Bioethics, Synthetic Biology
9 points by aard 71 days ago | 2 comments
Scientists call for halt on 'mirror life' microbe research (theguardian.com)
World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.
Science, Biology, Synthetic Biology, Ethics, Risk
17 points by howard941 72 days ago | 0 comments
A simplified form of life: Scientists build modules for a synthetic cell (phys.org)
It is one of the most fundamental questions in science: how can lifeless molecules come together to form a living cell?
Biology, Synthetic Biology, Science
5 points by PaulHoule 113 days ago | 0 comments