Showing posts with label artificial organisms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artificial organisms. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The artificial lifeforms can be closer than we even dare to think.


"A simplified synthetic equivalent of a cell would be like a blueprint for life. Credit: EVOLF project" (ScitechDaily, Can Life Be Engineered? Biochemists Take Key Steps Toward Synthetic Lifeforms)

Biochemists take their first steps into artificial life forms. The ability to manipulate and connect DNA bites together makes it possible to create artificial species. The nanotechnology plays a key role in that process. Things like genetically engineered bacteria can transport those DNA bites into targeted cells. 

The DNA is the genetic code that controls all actions in the cell. The DNA code can order a cell to die. Nanotechnology makes it possible to clean DNA from genetic errors. That gives the possibility to remove hereditary diseases from society and that thing can decrease things like crime ratio. If researchers can remove the genome that causes things like sociopathy it makes society safer. 

If researchers want to remove genetic diseases from fetuses. They must only take the DNA out from the morula. Then they must clean the DNA and replace the sick sequences using clean sequences. Then they must remove "dirty" DNA from the cell and inject the clean DNA into that cell. 


The same technology allows researchers to inject new abilities into cells. 


When researchers can combine animals and vegetables by connecting their DNA makes it possible to create new species that do not exist in nature. The ability to create synthetic DNA by connecting amino acids using nanotechnical instruments is one of the biggest advances in biotechnology. 

The artificial organism can be bacteria that destroys the tumor cells. Or it can be a mammal with green skin. The green skin gives that creature the photosynthetic ability. The creators of that thing must connect the animal cells with vegetable cells. 

The ability to manipulate the DNA gives researchers free hands to combine organisms and their abilities. When researchers increase their knowledge of the genetic errors that cause cancer or genetic diseases they can use genetic scissors to remove the abnormal DNA. And then. They can connect the wealthy  DNA to that point. 

This thing makes it possible to create many things that have been impossible before. The human who gets the genome transplant that involves a genome that controls gorillas or anaconda's muscle advancement would be the strongest person in the world. 

Maybe those things are still too far away from today's medical and genetic engineering.  But everything starts from the simple organisms. The genetically engineered bacteria can inject the DNA or mRNA into other bacteria or cancer cells ordering those cells to die. There is no resistance to those DNA bites. The same systems and methods can be used in the new types of weapons. Those weapons are the most lethal things in the world. 


https://scitechdaily.com/can-life-be-engineered-biochemists-take-key-steps-toward-synthetic-lifeforms/

Sunday, August 18, 2019

Could it be possible to grow the tree in second?

Could it be possible to grow the tree in second?

I just watched the short film from YouTube, where the spacecraft would land on some planet and starts to create a tree, what grows in seconds, and the thing made me think, could it be possible that this kind of thing can be done in the real life. The link to that film named "Abiogenesis" is below this text.

This thing is very interesting to think and the thing that we could make this kind of operation in real life would be a quite complicated process. The idea of this process is to use cell cultures, where are stored cells, what is genetically manipulated for the divide in extremely fast speed, and that thing could be made by turning the genomes to the ring-shaped form, and increase the sequences, what makes those cells divide.

That would cause the very much biomaterial would be created in a short period. Then the cell culture would take to high altitude and after that, the cells would be driven through the system, what looks like the shower. That would drop those cells down, and if the cells would be equipped with genomes, what makes them make chains and then touch together, that would allow creating vegetables in seconds. The cells need genomes, which allows them to create chains very fast and in theory those genomes can be taken from the mushrooms, and after that, the tree should be ready.

But of course, genetic engineering is not so easy, as we want to believe. The thing in genetic engineering is that when the regular engineer is operating with metals and microchips, the genetic engineer operates with genomes. That means that when the researcher, who wants to create new species starts to operate with genomes, that person makes the list about things, what the artificial organism needs or should do, and then the engineer would search the species, what have those certain features, and then the operators will isolate the DNA sequences of those organisms, what could be vegetables or animals.

Then the lasers would cut those sequences away, and then the nanomachines would take those sequences in the certain place of the targeted DNA, what makes this thing very effective. But there is a one really interesting problem with that technology. Each organism or the genomes of the organisms consists the billions of base pairs and being effective this technology needs the complete mapping of genomes of the every each organism on earth.

And after that researchers could locate the certain base pairs of each DNA. After doing this a fictional person would connect the cut bite of the DNA to a certain point of the targeted DNA. The connection would be made by using laser, what cuts the DNA to a certain point, and then the new bite of DNA would connect to that DNA molecule. This is the operation in theory, but there is, of course, some kind of problems with that technology.

First, the mapping of the genomes of the every each organism on Earth would take an extremely long time, and then cutting the DNA must happen at a certain point, and finding that point is a little bit complicated. But if we would someday create this kind of technology, we could store the DNA bites in the laboratory, and multiply them by using the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), what could make possible to create the changes in the wanted DNA.

And this makes possible to make children, who have the wanted quality. This thing would allow us to modify the DNA and that would bring the fascinating but at the same time terrifying images in the front of our eyes. Maybe in the land of tomorrow, we could create "super scientists" as well as "super soldiers", and that thing makes us face the new kind of social and communal pressures and the problems with legislation and many other things. One of the biggest problems is the moral and ethic problems what are causing problems with the juridical position of that kind of projects.

There is also shown futuristic and yet fictional drones, what are based flapping wing technology, and in the real-life, those drones could search hydrocarbons by using mass-spectrometers. The thing is that those wings can operate the same way as the wings of bugs. This means that they could be stored in the small space, and when those wings are needed, the small tubes inside them would be filled by using the liquid, what allows to create wings, what can store in the small space. The same technology could be used in the rotor wings of the helicopters of tomorrow.

The lightweight flexible carbon fiber would allow creating rotor wings, which can put in the pocket. And then the wings would be blown in the right form by using pressurized air or liquid. That thing might make possible to create the helicopter, what can carry in a backpack, and what is invisible on the streets. Then the operator would blow those wings to form when that person needs them. The system might use a rotating rotor. And that structure would be suitable for small size nano-bugs, what must operate in narrow conditions, and what should fly away after the operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEUao7ysgDc

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