> 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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