Imagination limits biotechnology.

Above: Fictional spacecraft from the movie "Prometheus"

 

The DNA molecule allows the creation of new 3D materials. Those materials can be organic or non-organic. The ability to connect this new technique with the advanced biological AI, based on 3D nanoprinters and RNA or DNA-controlled biorobot bacteria can make many things that beat even SciFi movies. The new natural materials that are like coral shells, combined with spider silk and the clam and its silver glass-shaped pearl material can make it possible to create structures. Those were not even introduced in the Sci-Fi books. 

Researchers think of the possibility of growing algae on Mars. That algae can of course act as food. There is also the possibility that genetically engineered algae that have the spider silk plate and the pearl membrane combination can be used as sandbags. The genetically engineered algae can also create spider silk for ropes and clothes. The genetically engineered fungus can be used to create extremely long neural tracks that allow the biocomputers to control other systems. Those axons can operate as data transporters between microchips that use living neurons as data processors. 

There is also the possibility of creating the boxes by using molten sand. Then the system fills those boxes with sand and covers them with that extra-strong material. Those things can be used to protect the permanent structures against the micrometeorites. The sandbag or sand coffin is easier to change than fixing the pressure wall.

The biological robots can be used to transform other cells. They can travel to the brain in the case of brain damage and change their shape into neurons. That helps to fix the brain damage. 

“Artistic rendering of the assembly of designed 3D hierarchically ordered nanoparticle structures using DNA-programmable bonds (left). The desired structure and its design with optical reflection properties, and an image of formed material with reflective characteristics (top right). Electron microscopy image of the realized structure with nanoparticles arranged in lines, separated at half-wavelength of light (bottom right). Credit: Oleg Gang” (Phys.org, Need a new 3D material? Build it with DNA)

Biological systems like electric eels’ electric cells can create electricity at least for laptop computers and portable systems. The biological robots that are based on biotechnology are formed of living tissue. But their brains are not advanced. The system can control those brainless creatures using microchips that are at the top of the spine. And theoretically, biotechnology can be used for larger-scale space technology. If we think about satellites that use biotechnology, those satellites can use solar cells for energy production. 

Things like genetically engineered living creatures can use the thick capsules to protect themselves against dryness. A thick membrane that is similar to the silver membrane that the clams make can solve the dryness problem. The membrane must be so tight that evaporation is impossible. The suit or skin that this hypothetical creature has can create the membrane. 

The bioships are the new tools for many things. There is a possibility to put microchips into the whales and fish's brains. That kind of system allows them to control those creatures. Large-size whales can act in the same way as submarines. And in some pictures, an orca is introduced that carries a torpedo launcher. Birds and other animals can do everything if humans control them. Bioimplanted microchips in bears’ or wolves' brains can turn werewolves into reality. The bio- and genetic technology makes it possible to create biological computers. 

In some visions, we might make a bioship somewhere in the future. In the simplest possible models the DNA can create the metal web around the biological structure. And in some jokes or futuristic visions. The saucer-shaped craft can be the clam-like oyster that is made of biological components. 

The bioship that includes a surface that is made of pearl, connected with spider silk and chitin can make it possible to create biological structures that can operate in space. The control tables of the bioship can be the glowing bacteria and bioluminescent bacteria can operate as screens of the bioship. The ion system can have the electric cells as power sources and the system can use the neural fibrines to transport electricity to the system. The craft can look like a horseshoe. 

The electric fields put ions around the craft to rotate opposite ways and that makes the ion cloud in the middle of the structure. That ion whirl can push the craft forward. When the system does not need those control tables it can melt them apart into that entirety. In the same way, when those systems don’t need their crew the craft can remove those bodies and melt them into its entirety. The living neurons are things that act as the computer that makes this kind of system very intelligent. In that model, the biocraft can be an alien for its creators. Maybe some of those visions will become reality sooner than we expect.

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-3d-material-dna.html

https://scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking-biological-artificial-intelligence-system-could-make-impossible-medicines-real/

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