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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) by circles_for-day on Monday October 28, 2024 @11:28AM (#41972062)
Don’t worry, synthetic life doesn’t work very well without evolution to tune it into a useful ecological niche. Venter already did something similar.

Tampering with existing viruses and symbionts so they can escape their current minima in the fitness landscape is the more dangerous thing.

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) by koeng on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @09:22AM (#41983599)
In this case, it is literally the Venter genome, just with removed tRNAs / codon sets. I'm collaborating with them on it (they're just doing the final transformation).
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