--One way to look at this is that God gave man a complex brain to use and figure out how to manipulate these building blocks He gave us. Apparently this can be used for good in things like transporting payloads to fight disease in the body.
--On the other hand who knows what might happen in the wrong hands......like creating a SUPER VIRUS BUG that escapes the Lab and is unstoppable......just ponder what would happen if it did just that---and someone came along and manipulated people's fear into the idea we need to do something like turn to God by honoring a day for Him?.....just thoughts to ponder in the pond of time.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Romans 3:18"....Now a team of scientists has repurposed living cells—scraped
from
frog embryos—and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. These
millimeter-wide "xenobots" can move toward a target, perhaps pick up a
payload (like a medicine that needs to be carried to a specific place
inside a patient)—and heal themselves after being cut."These are novel living machines," says Joshua Bongard,
a computer scientist and robotics. "They're neither a traditional robot nor a
known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact: a living,
programmable organism."
The new creatures were designed on a
supercomputer at UVM—and then assembled and tested by biologists at
Tufts University. "We can imagine many useful applications of these
living robots that other machines can't do," says co-leader Michael
Levin who directs the Center for Regenerative and Developmental
Biology at Tufts, "like searching out nasty compounds or radioactive
contamination, gathering microplastic in the oceans, traveling in
arteries to scrape out plaque."
The results of the new research were published January 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
And when they stop working—death—they usually fall apart harmlessly.
"These xenobots are fully biodegradable," say Bongard, "when they're
done with their job after seven days, they're just dead skin cells."
But try cutting it in half. Doesn't work so well. In the new
experiments, the scientists cut the xenobots and watched what happened.
"We sliced the robot almost in half and it stitches itself back up and
keeps going," says Bongard. "And this is something you can't do with
typical machines."To make an organism develop and function, there is a lot of information
sharing and cooperation—organic computation—going on in and between
cells all the time, not just within neurons. These emergent and
geometric properties are shaped by bioelectric, biochemical, and
biomechanical processes, "that run on DNA-specified hardware," Levin
says, "and these processes are reconfigurable, enabling novel living
forms."
Many people worry about the implications of rapid technological change
and complex biological manipulations. "That fear is not unreasonable,"
Levin says. "When we start to mess around with complex systems that we
don't understand, we're going to get unintended consequences." A lot of
complex systems, like an ant colony, begin with a simple unit—an
ant—from which it would be impossible to predict the shape of their
colony or how they can build bridges over water with their interlinked
bodies.
Much of science is focused on "controlling the low-level rules. We also
need to understand the high-level rules," he says. "If you wanted an
anthill with two chimneys instead of one, how do you modify the ants?
We'd have no idea." UVMtoday
Gay and bisexual young
adolescents experience more problems with lifestyle and wellbeing than
their heterosexual peers, according to a study by a government social
and cultural think tank.
The SCP, which analysed Dutch data from a 2017 international study on
health behaviour, has found that young people from 11 to 16 who
identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual (LGB) were more likely to have
sleep problems, overuse social media and were three times as likely to
feel unhappy.
Their family and school situation were likely to play a significant role
in their feelings, the study found. Despite some decrease in reported
bullying, these young people had far lower wellbeing than their
heterosexual peers.
Read more at DutchNews.nl:
Gay and bisexual young
adolescents experience more problems with lifestyle and wellbeing than
their heterosexual peers, according to a study by a government social
and cultural think tank.
The SCP, which analysed Dutch data from a 2017 international study on
health behaviour, has found that young people from 11 to 16 who
identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual (LGB) were more likely to have
sleep problems, overuse social media and were three times as likely to
feel unhappy.
Their family and school situation were likely to play a significant role
in their feelings, the study found. Despite some decrease in reported
bullying, these young people had far lower wellbeing than their
heterosexual peers.
Read more at DutchNews.nl:
Gay and bisexual young
adolescents experience more problems with lifestyle and wellbeing than
their heterosexual peers, according to a study by a government social
and cultural think tank.
The SCP, which analysed Dutch data from a 2017 international study on
health behaviour, has found that young people from 11 to 16 who
identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual (LGB) were more likely to have
sleep problems, overuse social media and were three times as likely to
feel unhappy.
Their family and school situation were likely to play a significant role
in their feelings, the study found. Despite some decrease in reported
bullying, these young people had far lower wellbeing than their
heterosexual peers.
Read more at DutchNews.nl:
