Synthetic Life Designer
Create New Life Forms in 3 Minutes!
Design synthetic organisms from scratch! Explore xenobiology, artificial life, and the revolutionary science of life creation. Build custom genetic codes, design novel metabolisms, and engineer organisms that nature never imagined.
๐ค What Is Synthetic Life?
Life that humans design from scratch! Instead of modifying existing organisms, synthetic biologists create entirely new life forms with custom DNA, novel proteins, and even alternative genetic alphabets. It's like being an architect of biology - designing living systems that never existed in 4 billion years of evolution.
๐ NASA Definition
"Self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution"
1994 - Still the working definition๐ฌ Assembly Theory
Life detected by molecular complexity - what life DOES, not what life IS
2023 - Lee Cronin & Sara Walker๐ Autopoiesis
Self-creating, self-maintaining systems that produce their own components
1974 - Maturana & Varela๐ Three Paths to Artificial Life
Soft ALife
Software-based life simulations
Examples
Tierra Avida Game of Life Neural Networksโ
Evolution demonstrated in silico
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Self-replication achieved
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Emergent behaviors observed
Hard ALife
Robotic and hardware-based life
Examples
Self-assembling robots Swarm robotics Evolutionary hardwareโ
Collective behaviors
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Limited self-repair
โณ True self-replication pending
Wet ALife
Chemical & biological synthetic life
Examples
Protocells Synthetic genomes XNA organisms Minimal cellsโ
First synthetic cell (2010)
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Recoded genomes (Syn61)
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XNA enzymes created
๐งฌ Genetic System
โ๏ธ Metabolism
๐๏ธ Structure
๐๏ธ Actions
๐ Organism Stats
๐ฎ Xenobiology Revolution
XNA Life Forms
Alternative genetic polymers
Expanded Genetic Code
Beyond the 20 amino acids
Alternative Biochemistries
Life beyond carbon & water