You could create a cell out of raw proteins, lipids, and minerals though, which they didn't do. You'd also need to have god-like control at an atomic level to pull it off.

It's like how you could use the energy and chemicals released from an ignited match to recreate an unused one if you had the mechanical dexterity and means to reassemble the chemical make-up of the match.

The article seemed to just cover another instance of bioengineered borrowing.

Create sillicon-based life and I'll be impressed.

Well they didn't create a person. They just created artificial bacteria, but possible advances in science may lead to that.
Not from scratch though

It is a start atleast. I mean, Cells make up living things. If they can figure out how to link them together along with artificial DNA(I have no clue how that would work) They might have something even more amazing in the near future.

not if we create life without those features. who said it has to be human based?

Do you guys believe it's gonna go dramatic?
A new source of life?

i watched that on the news. this is the first step of creating new biological species

I think i said something similar :3 any who nice to see someone agreeing with me
(mapleleaf...)

I think it's amazing..Just think how long it took nature to create the very first reproducing cell.. It's almost unreal

Sweet! Synthetic DNA, I was hoping it was possible.

Depends a bit on how you define life.
If you're lenient, you might be able to call a computer program silicon-based life.

The more picky you are the further done the road it is, but I don't see it being to far off for scientists to possibly be able to create a silicon molecule that, under the right conditions in the right environment, would successfully self-replicate.