Timeline for What is the most complex biological organism (or precursors) that we have been able to synthesize from raw materials?
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| May 16, 2015 at 23:02 | comment | added | Yehosef | @LeonAvery - if you want to post your comment as an answer, I can select it as no one else has offered anything better. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 14:41 | comment | added | Leon Avery | I think the simple answer is that no one has come anywhere close to doing what you ask for, under any commonly accepted definition of "life". Jack Szostak's work (molbio.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb) is a good place to start researching this. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 0:48 | comment | added | p.s.w.g | Modern bacteria are extremely complex (they've been evolving for about 4 billion years) and probably look very little like the first organisms on earth. We're not even sure if early life used DNA. Whatever we can produce in a lab from no pre-existing components, is bound to be hard to recognize as life as if it had evolved on an entirely different planet. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 0:35 | comment | added | canadianer | This might interest you: biology.stackexchange.com/questions/19316/… | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 0:11 | comment | added | Yehosef | a self replicating cell - but I'm open to other definitions if they exist. And I'm also not looking only for creation of complete life - just the furthest we've gotten. Lets imagine is the goal to make (even in lab conditions) a single self-replicating bacteria from raw materials, how far along are we? 1%, 5% 70%, etc. I'm interested in what we've made until now and where the next steps are to go further. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 0:01 | comment | added | p.s.w.g | Since you're discussing the boundary between living and non-living matter, can you provide a concrete definition for what you consider life for the purpose of this question? | |
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| Jan 27, 2015 at 23:39 | history | asked | Yehosef | CC BY-SA 3.0 |