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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I saw that. I chafe at calling this a "life form", but they have to bait those clicks somehow.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I refer you to Dick Wagner's talk on CRISPR, wherein he chafes at calling a bacterial phage a virus. Viri are only endemic to eukariotic cells (with a true nucleus and certain chromosome characteristics). </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Similarly, viri have been called life forms by some (not all) scientists, though they do not fulfill all the criteria of a complete life form. Then there are prion proteins, which are self-replicating but lack other characteristics even viri possess. <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">(Mad Cow Disease is caused by a prion, as is Chronic Wasting Disease in wild deer. And Scrapies in sheep.) </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-8-493#:~:text=Animal%20prion%20diseases%20include%20scrapie,and%20spongiform%20encephalopathy%20of%20primates." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-8-493#:~:text=Animal%20prion%20diseases%20include%20scrapie,and%20spongiform%20encephalopathy%20of%20primates.</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">(I minored in biochemistry in college, and did a tiny bit of grad school before dropping out.)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">So now we have synthetic "life" forms. The lines blur even further.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The machines are taking over, and we will be serving them before long. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">-- Bob Primak</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div> </div>
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On Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 08:07:10 PM EST, Evie <et8686@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv6112678226"><div dir="ltr"><div>Very interesting......<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say</div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html</a>
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