Sentence examples for artificial organisms from inspiring English sources

Smart materials can add new capabilities to robotics, and especially artificial organisms.

In Prey that means a genuine concern about the emergence of artificial organisms.

Basanta, D., Miodownik, M. & Baum, B., The evolution of robust development and homeostasis in artificial organisms.

What we need to reflect on is the balance between potential benefit and possible risk in work on artificial organisms.

Some observers have raised concerns that scientists could create artificial organisms which could then escape from laboratories and spark an environmental or health disaster.

But since the advent of genetic engineering in the 1970s, scientists have learned that artificial organisms designed for laboratory use are less well-suited for survival in the natural environment compared with naturally occurring organisms.

The benefit of this artificial organism paradigm is that we are encouraged to exploit, and go beyond, all the characteristics of biological organisms.

That means if they were released outside the lab, an artificial organism might somehow scavenge up a substitute chemical from the environment to replace the critical one fed to it in the labs.

Next, Venter intends to transplant the artificial chromosome into the walls of another cell and then "boot it up," thereby making a new form of life that would then be able to replicate its own DNA — the first truly artificial organism.

All that remains to create what most researchers in the field would be willing to recognise as an artificial organism is to insert such a chromosome into a bacterial cell that has had its own chromosome removed.

LIKE a striptease artist in front of an eager audience, Craig Venter has been dropping veils over the past few years without ever quite revealing what people are hoping to see: the world's first artificial organism.