hbag posted:

cant wait until the day i program a living being and it does nothing but beg me to kill it

yoloer420 posted:

How does a DNA printer work?

yoloer420 posted:

Is it a single DNA molecule in a vial?

yoloer420 posted:

What is it suspended in?

yoloer420 posted:

How does this get used?

yoloer420 posted:

and what exactly do you get as output?

Colonel Cancer posted:

Busy programming a retrovirus that makes you grow dongs, like, everywhere. Peace out nerds

hbag posted:

honestly this is probably going to make me sound dumb as gently caress but im tired so im posting it and then going to bed

since DNA "code" seems... idk, fairly similar to binary, almost, i wonder if we'll ever get something that's like a programming language but for DNA instead of software
because i mean all a programming languge really is is an abstraction of machine code instructions to make it easier for humans to write complicated programs
to me, it seems fairly possible that such a thing could also exist for DNA at some point

cruft posted:

Buddy, have you read the article where they encoded a buffer overrun in some DNA that exploited the sequencer?

Big Beef City posted:

poo poo, reading your posts pretty much does that to living beings currently

cruft posted:

Buddy, have you read the article where they encoded a buffer overrun in some DNA that exploited the sequencer?

hbag posted:

nope

but also if there are dna "programming languages" tell me em

chaosbreather posted:

I found Cello, that's been kicking around a while. But if you look at the link I posted earlier to the analysis it really seems like DNA is already like a machine code, albeit to a poorly defined, highly unreliable and massively fragmented pseudo platform, kind of like Android.

hbag posted:

i know it's already machine code but you don't see programmers going around writing machine code by hand unless they're on adderall or having a mental breakdown

hbag posted:

nope

but also if there are dna "programming languages" tell me em

zedprime posted:

Not DNA but mRNA vaccines are a compression algorithm of sorts. There are certain proteins we want to innoculate ourselves with. Proteins are hard to synth in vitro, so wouldn't it be easier if we just encoded instructions to do so instead? Well we do. There's kind of 2 states of the art here and they both involve RNA or DNA as recognizable code sequences we can boot up in a living thing:

mRNA vaccines encode the protein in an RNA boot disk of sorts. Our cells can load this boot disk directly into their protein synthesizer and create this foreign protein which we can then have an immune response against and be innoculated.

For other protein synth we have also programmed yeast or other productive single cell organisms with DNA. Using CRISPR we can stick the DNA that can generate the protein into it's DNA. DNA then prints the protein generating RNA boot disk and they disk can be loaded into the protein synthesizer to make the proteins. Here it's repeatedly because we have the master copy DNA where RNA injection in vivo you will eventually run out of boot disk (this is a good thing). Cull everything and do an extraction selecting for your protein and there you go, bioprinted proteins.

Either way you are taking a small instruction set and procedurally generating useful proteins.

Icept posted:

when can we raw dog complete strangers without bringing home some unintended collateral?

just asking the most pressing questions first

Colonel Cancer posted:

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

the end of the world will come when somebody designs a virus that turns the human brain into a bitcoin mining rig

somehow it'll become airborne and we won't find a cure in time to stop critical masses of workers from spending their days calling out arcane series of numbers instead of eating/sleeping/etc

the stupidest apocalypse imaginable

Icept posted:

when can we raw dog complete strangers without bringing home some unintended collateral?

just asking the most pressing questions first

Colonel Cancer posted:

Condoms are basically a firewall for your dna

Mooey Cow posted:

My dong is a series of tubes that constantly get clogged

Bloopsy posted:

This DNA printer will never see mainstream acceptance until it's the standard for the porn industry, which I read will be the case very soon.