Emerging technologies.

[harryagain]

List of emerging technologies. I expect the really interesting stuff is hidden/secret.

[Graham.]

Not sure I like the sound of:-

De-extinction: Potential applications, Animal husbandry, pets, zoos.

[Nightjar]

[spuorgelgoog]

Plant de-extinction could be quite useful. We might get fruit and vegetables that tasted of fruit and vegetables again.

And dodos or a dodo/turkey cross could make somebody the next Bernard Matthews.

Owain

[Nightjar]

Most of those are not extinct, merely less commercially viable.

[Davey]

Even better would be to not let them go extinct in the first place.

[dennis]

like cost effective storage for renewable energy sources!

[Brian Gaff]

I was reading up on artificial DNA the other day. it seems that now we know so much about how these natural ones work to do certain jobs etc, we have come up with some artificial ones that can be added into existing organisms or indeed used to build life from scratch. All a bit frightening. Brian

[The Natural Philosopher]

Artificial life will never be the same. Look at Harry.

[Dave Liquorice]

I don't think we are quite at the "build life from scratch" bit yet. What we can do is take the amino acids and assemble them in the right order following a sequence from nature. We can even teak the sequence to get desired results. But that is long way from "building from scratch", ie a new sequence that we have thought up.

Not quite as worrying as AI as outlined in the press recently. It's probably OK until you close the loop and allow the AI machines to control other machines that make things. Now if those making machines build amino acid sequences...

[Tim Streater]

And what you end up with is a protein, not DNA.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Each time I see a 3D printer printing a new 3D printer, I start humming The Sourcer's Apprentice to myself...

[Dave Liquorice]

sequence

No we can now assemble the amino acids following a given sequence. Stuff result into a stem cell having removed the orginal genetic material and grow the creature on. This has been done with some creature that has a very low number of genes, some nemotode? To all intents and purposes the creature is still what is but the starting bit of DNA was manufactured.

[Huge]

I think you're confusing amino acids (which are the components of proteins) with nucleotides (which are the components of DNA/RNA).

[Dave Liquorice]

Could well be, wanders off to google... Yep the AGCT, which I thought were amino acids. But it still stands that we can assemble those nucleotides in the right order and structure to make a functional strand of DNA (provided we have a bit to copy).

[Huge]

Indeed.