Natural Wonders

Natural wonders of the world have been useful to human beings for centuries. Scientists have taken naturally occurring beings in the world and used them for research for many different projects. Recently scientists studied the trait in jellyfish that make them glow. They’ve isolated the trait and have been able to use it for things such as cancer research and GMO’s. The trait is called green fluorescent protein, or GFP. “Scientists can use what makes jellyfish glow, to show how brain cells develop or how cancer spreads” (PlanetSave.com). GFP has also been useful in biological engineering. Scientists can use the GFP to tell whether a change in a plant or animal has occurred. If the glow occurs, that means “… the change has successfully been incorporated into the organism” (PlanetSave.com). The scientists who discovered the GFP won the Chemistry Nobel Prize.

The mere fact that scientists have the ability to take something that’s naturally occurring and use it to develop something like this opens up a lot of doors for the future. We have scientists who are trying to prepare for the inevitable future. If you’ve watched the Discovery channel lately, you will see programs that feature new inventions that scientists are working on perfecting. They have even developed a printer that will hopefully be able to create organs. Creations like these will change the world. That is, if they are actually put on the market or used. Fifty years ago, people thought we would have hover cars and robots to do our work. Unfortunately we aren’t at that point yet but we are pretty close. We’ve developed hybrid and electric cars. We even have robots that resemble dogs or cats (AIBO). Hopefully in a few decades we will have the technology to change the way every human being on Earth lives.