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We imagine making products “not found in nature”—but even natural microbes make molecules that organic chemists would never dream of. Look at thisantitumor agent discovered from a filamentous soil bacterium, the kind of bacteria that give soil that new smell in the springtime (Science 297:1170). Those sets of three parallel lines are each triple bonds, within a nine-carbon ring. Who would even think to draw such a thing, let alone make it? To make it, the bacteria use modular enzymes, nanoscale assembly lines that condense one functional part after another. The original nanotechnology.

Brilliance from Quiet Babylon:

• If unborn have rights, what about the indefinite number of future generations?
• By going vegan, you’ll help reducing number of born animals..
• Can you preserve animals in order to be able to hunt them?
• Are vat grown people born or not?
• What about failed fertilisations - how many unborn are killed?

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