Why is it that we cannot create the most simplest of life forms?

Question

With all our studies and research, how is it that we (The entire scientific knowledge of the World) are unable to create the simplest of life forms like the amoeba, paramecium, euglena and the flagella?

We have studied the RNA, the DNA, the Mitochondria and Ribosome’s. We know the protein chains and the PSA PTA reactions. We understand the enzyme interfaces and arobic resperation process.

We toy with life... cloning, morphing and even re-engineering it.

So why haven't we tried creating life... from scratch?

Perhaps I was looking for the spirtual side to the creation of life or maybe...

We are missing something. We are focused on the material, the quantifiable, the imperical.

Are studies are missing something, something we can't measure that is controling the timing. And I hypothesize that this timing is a constant for all replication of life.

All the materials are still here, all the forces everything except the actual event are here for the creation of life. Then why isn't life being created now?

Answer 1

Stanley Miller, who recently died (23 May 2007) in 1953 simulated the primitive atmosphere and he found aminoacids in the primitive “soup” that resulted of his experiment. It might not be very difficult to go from a bunch of aminoacids swimming in a beaker to a fully formed and functional protein that could control a chemical reaction in the expected way, but life is much more that this. It is an extremely organized dance of complex processes all acting at the exact precise time and only when they have to. To me what we are missing to create a simple life form able to replicate itself is timing of all these vital processes taking place inside the cell. We know most of the processes but it is hard to orchestrate them. They are too many and too complex and we might not know yet how all these processes are linked to the others.

On the other hand, you can see in the news how serious are the moral and ethical implications of cloning, let alone creating life. Who on Earth will be “managing” this life creation process? Who will be allowed to carry it on? I know your question was probably looking for a more technical argument rather than moral or ethical but these are sides that can’t be overlooked.

In my opinion, Homo sapiens, are not ready (psychologically and mentally) to wisely handle such a privilege of creating life in a lab.

Answer 2

It's a bit more complicated than simply adding all the reagents to a tube and expecting a reaction to happen. If you were to isolate the chromosome of an E.Coli cell in a tube, add RNA polymerase and ATP, you'd have a tube of RNA, DNA, and Protein, but no living cell, just reagents.

You need to have the exact right conditions for genes to be expressed, an example would be the wild-type version of E.Coli will not produce Cell-membrane proteins until it is nearing replication. How does it know when it is nearing replication? A messanger protein will bind to a segment of DNA and transcription will occur, from transcription, translation will occur, then the overal expression of the protein.

Thats just for one protein, this happens at a very rapid pace and though the mechanism may be understood, how its overal function in the cell may not be understood.

Even in a completely mapped chromosome there are still several spots where researchers have no idea what the protein does, but it's there for some reason.

We may one day be able to get the pieces of the puzzle to fall into place, for the mean time, we must be content with trying to shove the round peice into the square hole.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

We have. Back in 98, I think, a group of scientists downloaded a virus from the Internet. Or its DNA in digitalform. They built it from scratch using DNA sequensers and then inocculated a cow with it. The cow showed signs of infection proving the virus lived. Or worked. Viruses are sometimes referred to as complicated chemicals as they don´t really fit the criteria for a truly living thing. But if you do consider a virus a living thing then that virus was the first organism to travel at the speed of light...

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Creating & resurrecting life can be done only by God. That is His decision. Can you imagine what kind of world we would have if everybody could create life? Read "The Tempest" by Shakespeare or watch the 1954 movie "Forbidden Planet" (MGM).

Answer 6

Currently being worked on. Article in Welt der Wunder( in German sorry)
try craig venter`s work
jack szostak, james collins and george church

Answer 7

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Answer 8

they have tried it

they think that Nitrogen and lightning had something to do with it

you have to make the amino acids first, then protein chains

DNA, RNA, enzymes and such

Answer 9

Because no one can create life other than the creator of heaven and earth. Just like a design points to a designer, this world's superior design points to a superior designer, GOD.

Answer 10

we can clone. 4 generations of pigs have been cloned