Artificial bacteria are the biggest hope and the biggest threat.
Artificial bacteria are not. Like natural bacteria.
DNA and mRNA are tools that can rewrite a cell's genetic code. That means the cell changes its shape and then starts to make different things than the original cells. The ability to program cells is an opportunity. And threat. The ability to remove hereditary diseases from the human body. The problem is that the same technology allows researchers to make more perfect lifeforms. Than natural organisms. Artificial life normally means bacteria. Created using genetic reprogramming. In that case, the DNA bits will be collected and connected into the new form. That allows researchers to create bacteria that create antibiotics and spider silk, which is the strongest material in nature.
Bacteria can be reprogrammed to search and destroy cancer cells. And probably, genetically engineered cells can form tissues for the bioprinters. Reprogrammed bacteria can also make it possible to create a large mass of things like skin. In that case, bacteria are on the nutrient platform, and the system just changes the DNA in their nucleus. Theoretically is possible to create anaerobic bacteria. That releases oxygen into blood vessels. That kind of anaerobic, biological oxygen synthesis is one of the most fascinating things in biotechnology.
The ability to create artificial bacteria allows researchers to create new types of biological weapons. The same thing. That allows bacteria to search and destroy cancer cells. Allows weaponized bacteria to find things. Like neural structures or the blood vessel wall. And then attack those vital tissues. That kind of bacteria is very dangerous. There is a possibility. The bacteria themselves copy the targeted person’s cell antigens into themselves. And another dangerous thing is that. Those bacteria can destroy themselves after a certain time. When we think about the perfect, artificial organisms, we must realize that those organisms can turn the “Alien” movie monsters into reality.
There can be infectious bacteria that can create things. Like the HIV virus at the same time. That allows those bacteria to destroy the immune defense at the same time. Here, we must remember that artificial bacteria are made. Connecting DNA bits together. It is not like natural bacteria. That means those bacteria can make things. That is not possible for natural bacteria.
Researchers can create artificial organisms, and the same technology that makes bacteria resistant to poisons can turn them resistant to antibiotics. When we think about aliens, we might think of a very complicated lifeform. from outer space. The fact is that the term “alien” means something non-natural. Biolaboratory can create aliens that nothing can resist. Those aliens are not like humans; they are microscopic organisms. Those creatures can be a fast-increasing bacterial population. Those bacteria can look like hospital bacteria.
The thing that protects us against immune-resistant super bacteria is their complicated form. Their population will not increase fast enough to it can cause problems outside the hospitals. Natural bacteria destroy those organisms very fast. The biggest threat is the super bacteria that can increase their population too fast. If antibiotics cannot destroy those bacteria. They can cause problems.
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