Comments on: Frankenstein’s Mycoplasma

By: simian

simian — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:30:39 +0000

I think I understood that all except for the new ‘romances.’ Are you implying we may decode love? I would point you to my first-ever entry in this blog for my view on that…

By: Helder - Pt

Helder - Pt — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:21:56 +0000

gijoe has a point, the humans are assuming the adult phase in the universe. At least he didn’t call for god, we (humans) really don’t need it any more, we learned to read the ‘book of life’ and now we learned to copy write it, soon there will be new ‘romances’ to enjoy or regret.

By: simian

simian — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:19:32 +0000

What’s your point? Are you trying to lead me to Jesus?

By: gijoe

gijoe — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:13:31 +0000

Just had to add the “neoconservative oil barons” comment eh? Jesus…

By: simian

simian — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:52:44 +0000

It’s amazing even that an ecological niche exists for an organism without a cell wall. I just learned that Mycoplasma are immune to antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis, which may explain that. It’s amazing what an impact the invention of antiseptics, antibiotics, and vaccines have had on bacterial evolution (at least the ones that follow humans around!).

By: Pegasus

Pegasus — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:45:21 +0000

Yeah, I wondered that too. For instance, maybe their genome has fewer base pairs since it does not have to code for the proteins to build a cell wall. When I have more time I’ll have to see if I can find some specific numbers.

By: simian

simian — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:12:53 +0000

I did not know that! I wonder if that makes it easier somehow…

By: Pegasus

Pegasus — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:27:16 +0000

This is very exciting news indeed! I think it’s interesting they chose Mycoplasma to work with. An interesting characteristic of Mycoplasma is they lack cell walls.