Sunday, January 18, 2009

Have A Look!

Hello friends, this post is about a big step that has been taken toward the artificial life of the human beings. This is about creating a ribosome which is the cell’s factory. This ribosome is responsible for the proteins which help us to lead our day to day life. All the living organisms from human beings to animals to bacteria use this ribosome. Surprisingly, the ribosome used by all the living organisms is similar. It is not quite artificial life, but an important step in that direction.

They would also like to make a whole new kind of cell which is a mirror image of a replicating system. It may be possible to make other proteins in a lab dish without using living cells. These may include drugs that have been too hard to make now using a process called rational drug design, when drugs are built molecule by molecule to have a specific mechanism of action. However, a ribosome which is man-made or a reconstituted is programmable so that it can be used to create all kinds of molecules.

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