From an article in Corriere della Sera on May 26, 2010: Zygmunt Zimowski
"important scientific results.
But it is improper to call it a creative act. It should be monitored '
"Only God creates, man produces." The Vatican intervenes in the debate that has been created around the news synthetic cell developed by Craig Venter, the U.S. researcher has long competed with the scientists of the Human Genome Project to get to the sequencing of DNA. And that has now developed a fully synthetic DNA. As said by him and reported in Science, "the first ever created synthetic cell, derived from a fully synthetic chromosome built with four bottles of chemicals on a synthesizer from processed information to the computer." But the Vatican fixes: The synthetic cell produced in the laboratory by the team of Craig Venter, it can not be defined as "creation of life." The cell in question is a technical product of man. These are "synthetic biology".
PRODOTTO UMANO - A prendere posizione è il Presidente del Pontificio consiglio per gli operatori sanitari, mons. Zygmunt Zimowski, che ha rilasciato una dichiarazione in merito al dibatto che si è aperto in questi giorni alla Radio Vaticana. «Stando a quanto sinora reso pubblico in merito alla cosiddetta cellula sintetica - ha affermato Zimowski - si può certamente definirla un importante risultato tecnico della ricerca scientifica. E questo dobbiamo ammetterlo. È invece improprio, e vorrei ribadirlo, è improprio definire la realizzazione di questa cellula come un atto creativo o come la creazione della vita». «Non dobbiamo parlare di creazione: solo Dio crea, l'uomo produce. Questo è un prodotto umano, non una creazione. It is, without detracting from the value of the researchers, a change to what already exists, therefore, of synthetic biology. "
the unpredictable - The cell synthetic supports the Polish archbishop, raised two fundamental questions: "The risk of the unexpected, news related to this level, and the insolubility of the combination of science-ethics," said Msgr. Zygmunt Zimowski. "We must always respect the combination of science, ethics, and will, therefore, necessary that further research on this cell is carefully monitored." So the Vatican representative said: "I would add that - as was done for the human genome with the constitution Elsa-Ethical, legal, and social issues - for its future use will be necessary to develop a special side project that is going hand in hand with the progress of the trial, assessing the impact of ethical, legal and social. "
REFLECTIONS:
SYNTHETIC (meaning) = a product made artificially synthesized.
So far, no synthetic product, type of animal reproduces itself. Not only: in this case, the descendants will be able to mate with cells generate synthetic and other organisms.
And these bodies as we called them? ... .. SEMISYNTHETIC, synthetic or 30%, 60% to 90%?
And if you replace the DNA of a fertilized egg human, with a completely synthetic DNA, what we get? ... A man of plastic, with less of our rights, but you can not pair women with synthetic? ... .... Of course then arise the question of whether or not they have a soul.
some members of the Vatican, in its naivete, would bring about a new kind of racism, even more dangerous.
In any case, it is evident that these types of experiments will be in China (they have already created hybrids of human and rabbit), but no international authority can ban them. So it is better to accept them and, if anything, to prepare countermeasures (such as antivirus).
Alessandra
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