• Question: I know that crystals have specialised cells so could you actually manage to make a man made one? Can you Somehow duplicate or immitate the cells?

    Asked by onleethebrave to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 16 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      OOh I don’t know the answer to that one, maybe someone in another zone can help?

    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I am not too sure about this one either. I do know that we are now able to modify cells to make them behave in new ways. Its a process called Synthetic Biology. There is huge potential but as engineers we will also have to answer some fundamental moral questions around this.

      For more information, you could try the health zone.

      Rory

    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to this either – but you’ve inspired a google search so I’m now off to find some info for this on the internet!
      Perhaps you could try searching too? I’m sure there’s lots of info out there on this!

    • Photo: Jaz Rabadia

      Jaz Rabadia answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Not sure either… id go with cathy’s suggestion

    • Photo: Mark Greaves

      Mark Greaves answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Wow, you’ve got us all stumped!

      I think, like Cathy, Google is the place to turn to on this one.

      Mark

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