supporting Evidence: Science & Future (1)

Are we not already beginning to create life ourselves ?

50 years of science in retrospect

If we take a look at the last 50 years of scientific progress, especially in the field of genetics, it is clear that soon we will create life ourselves in our own laboratories. We will certainly be mistaken as Gods by the intelligent life we create. If we are about to create life on another planet, then could humanity have come about this way too - created by another race from another solar system?

1941

To put this human adventure into perspective, let us not forget the important step made by Beadle and Tatum's discovery in 1941 that genes control the synthesis of
proteins and with a different gene for each enzyme.

1953 These tentatives beginnings on the understanding of cellular mechanisms were quickly supporte4d by further evidence, notably that of Crick and Watson's discovery in 1953 of the double helix structure of D.N.A. and of its self-replicating properties. A major event which completely revolutionised the understanding of the living world for biologists at the time.

1954 to 1970

From then on, things accelerated. The first sequence
of a protein, insulin, was proposed in 1954. In 1960,
Jacob and Monod demonstrated how RNA regulates
protein synthesis and in 1970, the first gene is
synthesized in laboratory from basic chemicals.
From then on, the genii of genetics is out of its bottle.

1972

Pr. Berg from Stanford succeeds in the first gene recombination carried out entirely under human control
where he manages to reintegrate a gene into a mammalian chromosome.

1975 to 1980

The techniques for cloning and sequencing of DNA, which
make it possible to read the information, become standard
procedure.

1978 Birth of the first test tube baby, Louisa Brown in England and Amandine, born in France in 1982. This in vitro fertilization technique, which consists in fertilizing an ovule in laboratory, letting it develop for 3 days before reimplanting it into the uterus, has given birth until now to 4,500 to 5,000 children in France