Ask HN: Can we deserialize organisms from DNA yet?
Not a specific organism (with its synapses, memories, methylation, quantum state, soul etc), but an "instance" of the species from a "representative, accurate" copy of its DNA on a hard disk.
The question is not "is the DNA accurate enough" (tho maybe that is a thing, I don't know), but if we have "accurate" DNA, can we somehow create a living thing (not knowing how accurate this is, but to illustrate the meaning: print DNA into bases, put these in a cell, somehow grow that cell into the organism). Has it been done?
The question is not "is the DNA accurate enough" (tho maybe that is a thing, I don't know), but if we have "accurate" DNA, can we somehow create a living thing (not knowing how accurate this is, but to illustrate the meaning: print DNA into bases, put these in a cell, somehow grow that cell into the organism). Has it been done?