Creates creatures that help people settle on Mars

A group of scientists are creating synthetic organisms that can use CO2 to make the necessary materials for life.

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Well-known biologist Craig Venter said that when creating synthetic organisms that consume CO2 to make life materials, people can settle on Mars one day.

Now the group is trying to design cells that can use CO2 in the atmosphere to make food, fuel, plastic and other products.

Synthetic organisms that consume CO2 can develop life on Mars (Photo: Livescience)

This ability is not only significant on Earth but also makes Mars with a mostly CO ₂ thin atmosphere a better place to live.

Venter and his colleagues announced the creation of the world's first synthetic genome in May 2010.

The group built the genome of Mycoplasma mycoides from many of the same pre-existing units of DNA. They then transplanted the genome into closely related species that had lost the entire genome. The host bacteria will quickly act and reproduce like M. mycoides in nature. This suggests that the structural changes of organisms may be useful in the near future.

Venter and his team decoded the human genome a decade ago. His top priority now is to create synthetic life forms that can solve the big problem on Earth, as the human population continues to increase, food problems are increasingly urgent.

Finally, Venter's General Gene Company plans to develop synthetic algae to consume CO2, to produce biofuels cheaply and efficiently. The company signed a contract worth $ 600 million with ExxonMobil in 2009 to implement.

If successful, this program will not only be useful for blocking the tide of climate change on Earth and Mars, but it will also be able to create blocks of life materials in the atmosphere of the red planet.

'If successful, we can change the future, when these cells will create new sources of life that we are all expecting , ' Venter said.