Scientists have recreated life with the world’s first computer model of a complete living organism.
Mycoplasma genitalium might be the world's smallest free-living bacterium, but modelling every single molecular interaction has been a massive task.
Researchers playing God at Stanford University used data from over 900 scientific papers to create the computer model of the parasitic bacterium, opening the door for computer aided design in bioengineering and medicine.
The final virtual cell model made use of more than 1,900 experimentally determined parameters, with computational models making sense of “enormous” amounts of data, according to the scientists.
This can kick start computer aided design using the model developed can now begin, and could even mean the “wholesale creation of new microorganisms”.
Bacteria or yeast could be used to mass produce pharmaceuticals, for example, or personalised medicine.
The created bacterium is only 525 genes large, compared to E.Coli which is a tad more complicated at 4,288, but it seems the researchers will begin looking to model larger organisms too in the future.
That is not to say that we are in the realms of 80s sci-fi flick Weird Science just yet. The scientists say that even medicinal applications are a long way off, and it is going to take an effort on the level of the Human Genome Project to get close to a human model.
For those whose ambition in life is to count beyond their toes, life is not only a miracle, it is actually sacred and is therefore not at all creatable by any ole energy transformer, absolute transformation being the realisation of a human from a single cellular entity. Some "Protein XYZ" might be able to alter the principle of, say, a liver cell to some concept of a cancer by "democratising" that cell with new and wonderful concepts about "individuality", "entertainment", and "concerting" [where chemistry, biology and perhaps physics, is free flowing], but that is not about creation, it is all about creativity. A Simplicity which Eludes, especially those whose qik-fix in life in to add zeroes to anything and calling that creativity, creation, the addition of enough zeroes, meaning nothing, being the path to Infinity for the vacuous Infintisers. Yet Another Simplicity which Eludes. Perhaps this is why nothing is also everything, the power of the atom being the proof. ASWE.
At this rate of elusivity, humans will be reduced to something beyond our stupdity-dumbness, humans being the result of [Cosmic] Dust. If true, where did Conscience came from? Permutations and Combinations perhaps, the fav of Statisticians, oka Gamblers Galore. You cannot "re-create" something which is living although you could modify it, such is rationality, the grasping at reality by the vacuous, much like those born blind trying to hold onto their concept of colours just in case their lack of conscience is uncovered, Conscience being the consciousness and then awareness that one is human - a case of introspection/self/creation and not its superficial substitute, inspection/another/re-creation/creativity.
As such, those who have conscience will never, ever, imagine for a moment, that creativity is creation. ASWE, especially for "Creationists", those who have yet to realised Divinity other than re-presenting their concept of Divinity in the hopes of obtaining a seat at The Final Photoshoot. And why are "pro-God-dists" bad for The Divine? Because they promote imagination and belief systems, oka Religion & Religiosity, which any ole human will be able to discern is untrue thereby casting Divinity into mythology if not one belonging to The Asylum too. Above all else, the hardening of concepts will thwart attempts by Principles [of Divinity] to maintaining their course. The Bookie not only profits through/from Disagreement, He is a very, very, sly Devil too. So cunning that any attempt at realising Reality through thoughts meant that He's got you before you had even begun. One reason why Divinity is for, and realisable by, all like the deprived, the infirmed, the blind-blinded, the "uneducated", and the young and not only by scholarship.
In fact and in reality, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of needle than for a scholar/preacher to realise The Divine, something zombies who religiously attend religious gatherings never, ever, hear about. Why is this so? Because The Devil is not only in The Details, The Devil is The Details, oka one's thoughts [of The Past and The Future], symbolised as The 2 Horns of The Devil and His hold on The Trident, The 3 Dimensionalities [out of 5] that are within reach of any ole human, namely one's Subjectivity/The Past/"The Left"/Femininity, and Objectivity-Projectivity/The Future/"The Right"/Masculinity.