Hacker News with Generative AI: Synthetic Biology

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
'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.
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.
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?