The benefits and dangers of using the DNA-molecule in nanotechnology.
In the future, genetically engineered bacteria would create parts of nanomachines. There are also risks when we are creating nanotechnology and especially the solutions, what are basing the DNA molecule. The thing is that the DNA-molecule is the base for life and the risk is that researchers would just create the artificial organism, which can cause very much troubles to the natural species.
And if those manipulated bacteria would be released to nature, there are the suspected problems in that kind of case. In nanotechnology is created ideas to use bacteria for creating tools for nanomachines, and the problem is that how those bacteria can make things like pulling DNA from the other side of them. In this case, the bacteria are acting like Wolf spiders(1). That creature will pull the thread behind it, and that thing would happen in the nanotechnology but far smaller scale.
If we are creating the bacteria, what we can use to create the structures to nanomachines, that thing can cause very bad problems if this kind of organism would be released to the natural environment, the bacteria can be extremely difficult to control. And that's why the used DNA sequences must be done by that criterion, that there must not be sequences, what causes diseases or make copies of themselves.
But the thing that makes DNA so interesting material in nanotechnology is that there is no limit for the length of that molecule. And DNA is the molecule, which is easy to create, and in the future, there could be bacteria, which will pull the DNA behind them. If those bacteria would put in a drone that thing can hang DNA below them, what makes possible to make kilometers long molecules.
In this futuristic case, we are talking about bacteria, what processes its nutrition to the extremely long DNA molecule, what would be kilometers long. The idea of this system is that the bacteria, what would be used to create the DNA would put in the tube below the drone. Then the nutrition that bacteria would transform into DNA would be released to bacteria.
And in each tube would be single bacteria, what would start to make a molecule, and then the drone would start to rise, and that thing would make possible to make the thin structure and around that the other drones would start to create a nanotube, what diameter is the same with DNA molecule.
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