> At least now they can design cells (or just genome for now).  Someday, 
> they'll design genetically-enhaced neural cells and hope those make them 
> obsolete.

Doubt it.

Currently they've figured out how to modify a genome and insert it into 
a suitible organism. Nobody has yet come up with anything remotely 
approximating "design a cell" - more like "make a minute modification to 
an existing cell" (usually to make it produce some single chemical 
substance of interest to us). And even that doesn't always work. 
Designing a whole cell would be a radically larger undertaking.

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