Experimental trivia: experimental superbugs that could destroy humans

Super Super Bacteriology. This was in 1971. Ananda Chakrabati, a well-known American microbiologist, was genetically modified. A kind of bacteria has been transformed into a super series, which can quickly break down crude oil. The name of this bacteria is called Pseudomonas odorifera.

According to the results of experiments at that time, this bacterium can increase the speed of crude oil decomposition by 100. Why did she study this bacterium? It was because there were a lot of crude oil spill accidents in the United States at that time. The solution at that time was basically that the seawater dissolved itself slowly, and the speed was very slow. It may take decades, so after he invented the bacteria, This bacterium can quickly break them down.

The experiment found that this bacterium is very powerful. Almost any organic matter can be decomposed. Even plastic can be distinguished. As a result, it was found that this bacterium has a problem. It has strong resistance. It is currently known that no antibiotic is effective for it. If you ca n’t kill it, you ca n’t take it out. For example, if you let the crude oil decompose, what will it do after the crude oil is decomposed? If it continues to decompose fish and shrimp, it is all decomposed. What do you eat? But if it comes to land to break down trees, humanity will perish.

The final bacterium was not released in the laboratory, and a very famous thing about this bacterium was that after the Chakrabati Institute developed the bacterium, it immediately applied for a patent like the United States, but many people opposed it. Hold a patent, why? Because no one has ever claimed that there is a patent for living things before that, he meant that this life was created by me, it is this bacterium, I created it, and I invented it. So he litigated for many years. In the end, the US Supreme Court ruled that he won the lawsuit and gave him the patent of this super bacteria, which is also the most famous patent case in life in American history.