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		circles_for-day on Oct 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024) Don’t worry, synthetic life doesn’t work very well without evolution to tune it into a useful ecological niche. Venter already did something similar. Tampering with existing viruses and symbionts so they can escape their current minima in the fitness landscape is the more dangerous thing.

koeng on Oct 29, 2024 [–]

In this case, it is literally the Venter genome, just with removed tRNAs / codon sets. I'm collaborating with them on it (they're just doing the final transformation).

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