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[The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech] New Tech: Artificial Life Forms Created that Evolve Intelligence: Unlike real-life Darwinian microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected. 

[NeuroLogica Blog] NeuroLogica Blog » Artificial Life: Eric writes (to Paisley): “This distinction you keep drawing between awareness and consciousness is not well defined. I’ve been talking about consciousness, which I define at my web site, and if you think there is some additional problem shared by all life, then maybe we should be talking about the merits of vitalism (esp since you have suggested that mechanism X, in a living thing, convers awareness, but not if the same mechanism is in a mere machine).”

[Evolution News & Views] Evolution News & Views: Nick Lane Takes on the Origin of Life and DNA: It becomes Spiegelman's monster - a prolifically replicating strand of RNA, capable only of the most artificial and frenzied existence. Curiously, it doesn't matter where the starting point is: you can start out with a whole virus or with an artificial length of RNA.

[Science-Based Medicine] Science-Based Medicine » Germ theory denialism: A major strain in ...: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that up to 70 percent of the human bacterial infections in the Western world are caused by biofilms. This includes diseases such as prostatitis and kidney infections, as well as illnesses associated with implanted medical devices such as artificial joints and catheters and the dental diseases””both tooth decay and gum disease””that arise from dental plaque, a biofilm.

[ActionBioscience] Extreme Environments: Is There Life in Sea Ice? (ActionBioscience): So the contact rate is much higher””600 times higher than it is in seawater (based on model calculations by one of my former graduate students, Llyd Wells), and that sets up the potential for “horizontal,” also called “lateral,” gene transfer [when an organism incorporates genetic material from another alien organism, in this case transmitted via viruses]. This high contact rate also sets up the potential for the virus to attack the cell, reproduce within it, and then cause cell lysis [death of a cell when its contents spill out after a break in the cellular membrane].

[Tom Pittman's WebLog] Artificial Life: First, this is about computers -- very tiny computers, but Crichtonis at pains to show us some of their programming. The code he shows isnot in any common industrial programming language like Lisp (which mightbe appropriate for the artificial intelligence of this story) or C++;

[Answers in Genesis Articles] News to Note, May 22, 2010 - Answers in Genesis: Nonetheless, Ayala agrees that “[m]orality is a unique human trait, one of the most important and most distinctive traits that characterize humanity,” and that separates us from animals. What Ayala leaves out is what no evolutionary theory of morality is able to provide: why humans chose to live cooperatively in the first place (i.e., being able to choose does not imply a rationale for choosing), why humans still choose to “follow the rules,” and why most evolutionists insist that humans ought to behave morally, when according to evolution we are the result of the “survival of the fittest” in a world where nature is not nice.

[Quasi Mundo] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence - The strange and ...: Avidians are not microbes, or sci-fi alien life forms. They are the digital offspring of Charles Ofria and colleagues at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing.

[Anguished Repose] They replicate, mutate and evolve - the new technology! OMG ...: Similar to microbes, Avidians take up very little space, have short generation times, and can evolve new traits to out-compete their rivals. Unlike microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected.

[Council For Responsible Genetics Blog] Council For Responsible Genetics Blog | Venter Speaks Out on the ...: In a DER SPIEGEL interview, genetic scientist Craig Venter discusses the 10 years he spent sequencing the human genome, why we have learned so little from it a decade on and the potential for mass production of artificial life forms that could be used to produce fuels and other resources.

[Everyday Christian] Conversation With An Atheist -- Christian Blogs | Everyday Christian: Reactions to Venter’s accomplishment have been mixed–while it has been trumpeted as the creation of artificial life, many scientists said the reaction was overblown, and took issue with Venter’s claim of having created a truly synthetic cell. Here, we round up a selection of responses from all corners of the science world.[1]

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