Artificial bacteria with non natural DNA eating living organisms

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"Artificially created to remove oil spills, a bacterium has begun
to eat everything living around." Headlines like this were not
uncommon at the beginning of the last decade, and there were
reasons for it. Has an artificially created monster named "Cynthia"
developed to deal with the oil pollution of the Gulf of Mexico,
began to attack living beings, including people? This story is
highly controversial. To believe in it or not, it is rather difficult
to determine how many percent of the truth is in it. This is
a sensitive matter, as it concerns the entire planet and every
person, if this story has any basis. It can even cause panic, so
there is reason to hide this information from the public. In 2010,
a colossal oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, on a South
Korean-made semi-submersible oil platform of ultra-deep
drilling, owned by British Petroleum, which could not be dealt
with for several months.  From April to September 2010, at least
five million barrels of oil leaked. The hydrocarbon patch occupied
an area of over 100,000 square kilometers, destroying all life
within its borders. Moreover, such an amount of viscous substance
changed the circulation of oceanic waters of different temperatures,
which led to the damping of the warm Gulf Stream and extremely
unpleasant climatic changes in Europe. British Petroleum also
found itself in a catastrophic financial situation: in addition to
direct losses, it was necessary to compensate for the damage from
the environmental disaster, as well as the economic losses of the
fishing industry and tourism. By early 2013, BP's payouts on these
grounds had reached $27 billion. 
nd then they allegedly decided to use an artificially created
bacterium, called Cynthia. It was supposed to "consume" all the oil,
and then self-destruct. It's hard to imagine that, of course. This
microorganism (Mycoplasma laboratorium) was bred at the American
Institute of J. Craig Venter, a pioneer of genetic engineering during
the first decade of the 21st century. Twenty scientists led by Nobel
laureate Hamilton Smith managed, by juggling the chromosomes
of the parasitic bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, to derive the
so-called "minimal bacterial genome", called the Cynthia
bacterium - an artificial organism with a completely
computer-designed genome, which consists of special chains
of "watermarks" and does not contain, like all other living organisms
on Earth, natural DNA. Among the features of Cynthia is the ability
to process crude oil quickly and efficiently, while actively
multiplying. In 2011, Cynthia was launched into the Gulf of Mexico
and things started to go well: oil slicks really began to decrease
before our eyes, the area of pollution began to decrease rapidly.
In nature, there are similar organisms that are "responsible" for
cleaning, but they work rather slowly. Cynthia, on the other hand,
multiplied very quickly and the process accelerated at times. So,
this bacterium was possibly thrown into the place of an ecological
disaster and began to devour oil. However, after eating the oil
spills, Cynthia did not self-destruct as expected, but mutated into
a carnivore and the bacterium spread to living organisms.
Cynthia's "work" is credited with the mass death of fish in the New
Orleans area, the death of a huge number of birds in Arkansas. Also,
130 oil spill workers reported to hospitals complaining of ulcers
of unknown origin. They even wrote that the bacterium caused
lesions in bathers who ventured into the waters of the Gulf
of Mexico. All allegedly, both in humans and in animals, they found
the same lesions: ulcers on the body and internal organs, causing
unstoppable bleeding, which became the cause of death. Supporters
of the theory of using Cynthia to eliminate oil spills believe that
Cynthia and the Gulf Stream set off to travel around the planet from
the Gulf of Mexico, hitting the Arctic and Alaska. It is believed
that it is such a small organism that it can spread with
precipitation. Moreover, they said about Cynthia that there was
nothing to destroy it as it was not afraid of antibiotics. If there is
some truth in this, then it can get into any body of water on the
planet and destroy all life.
However, it must be said that since 2014, rumors about this bacterium
have subsided. We are not yet seeing the mass death of living beings,
from which there is no escape, as rumors about this bacterium
promised. The conclusion can be simple - for the sake of a penny,
compared with the scale of a possible planetary catastrophe, economy,
the transnational giant BP and the newly-minted "Doctors Moreau"
quite likely let the genie out of the bottle: nature has not created
anything like an artificial bacterium, respectively, there is no
compensatory antidote against it. The bacterium's team, and it was
certainly created, say that Cynthia was only an experimental sample
which was not at all intended to deal with an oil spill, and was
never released into the environment. The stories about the "blue
death", as Cynthia was also called, are openly laughed at.  Whether
to believe or not in the existence of a dangerous bacterium in the
ocean cannot be unambiguously decided.