Man creates live which Nature has not conceived
Researchers from the United States invest effort in the development of a new branch, controversial from its forthcoming a few years ago: synthetic biology. The competition between them and European scientists is fairly tight, especially since the actual presidential governance does not give these futuristic technologies much credit.
According to a study made in the United States, the residents themselves do not know much about this type of science meant to ease our life conditions. The new science is an interdisciplinary field resulting from the merging of biology and technology with the purpose of creating new life forms which Nature has never conceived. The biologist engineers create or reconstruct living organisms, such as bacteria, to have specific functions, all experiments being grounded on manipulation of the genetic code. The new life forms will come forth in laboratories, will resist against diseases, will be able to produce alternate combustible and even create live computers.
“We are facing issues such as climate change, health problems, the shrinking of water and energy resources. Synthetic biology can offer solutions to all these deficiencies: microorganisms able to convert vegetal matter into fuel, to integrate new drugs which could destroy the ill cells in a body.” Affirms a team of researchers hoping to obtain research funds.
