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We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Scientists have created bacteria that thrive using an expanded "genetic alphabet". The blueprint for all life forms on Earth is written in a code consisting of four "letters": A, T, C and G, which pair up in the DNA double helix. But the lab organism has been modified to use an additional two, giving it a genetic code of six letters. Jeff and Anthony try to figure out why they are doing this, and discuss what this might mean for the future.

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0:00.0

Sup y'all, you want to know the secrets here, the secrets. If you go to patreon.com slash we have concerns

0:04.4

You can get early episodes, you can get bonus episodes, you can get super long episodes with special guests like Justin

0:09.6

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0:14.1

And you're not doing the thing I need you today is just one simple thing I need both my hands for typing

0:34.5

This is we have concerns hi Jeff Ganada. Hi Anthony Carbony. Hello concerned citizens. Oh we got

0:40.2

ourselves a story sent to us by a whole messa people. Oh lordy lordy. Oh messa people was the vapes.

0:48.6

When when a whole bunch of people send a story you know we tend to tend to perk up but this story may

0:54.0

Be able to ignore it. Yeah, what we do because we're iconoclasts. That's right. We go against the grain.

1:00.1

So fuck your story. We're doing an different story. What's the story we're actually doing?

1:05.3

The story we're actually doing is was sent to by a whole bunch of people. God damn it's it's supposed to be a unified front Jeff

1:12.7

These these lots of people sent it to we have concerns show at gmail.com. They logged on to our subreddit at we have concerns. reddit.com

1:21.0

We just got inundated with this one. He followed me home from work. Yeah, don't do that guys. That's why we have the email

1:27.7

Rock through the window with a piece of paper tape to it. It was anyway possible

1:33.6

This is about synthetic life and the fact that we have figured out a way to create

1:40.0

a kind of microbe

1:43.0

That has more than the usual amount of DNA data

1:48.6

stored in it. What do you mean like more more as in how more as because

1:53.6

Usually we've increased like all living creatures kind of have

1:57.4

Uh different amounts of like not every DNA has the same number of matched pairs in their DNA strand that we do

2:03.9

That's correct, but those match pairs are made up of the same four

2:09.0

letters the same four genetic elements right? Guanine, cytosine, whoa

2:14.3

Adnan and thymine gazooontite

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