Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is a type of bacteria that can cause an STD. You get it by having sex with someone who has it. Even if you don’t go “all the way” with vaginal sex, you can get MG through sexual touching or rubbing.

Scientists have known about this bacteria since the 1980s, but a recent study showed that more than 1 in 100 adults might have it.

Symptoms
MG doesn’t always cause symptoms, so it’s possible to have it and not know it.

In men, the symptoms are:

Watery discharge from your penis

Burning, stinging, or pain when you pee

The symptoms for women are:

Discharge from your vagina

Pain during sex

Bleeding after sex

Bleeding between periods

Pain in your pelvic area below your belly button

Getting a Diagnosis for MG
Unlike other STDs, there is no test for MG that the FDA has approved. But if you or your doctor think you might have it, you can get a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT).

For this test, you might have to give a sample of your pee. Your doctor might also use a swab to take a sample from your vagina, cervix, or urethra, the tube that carries your pee out of your body.

Other Health Problems MG Can Cause
MG can cause a number of complications:

A problem that makes your urethra irritated, swollen, and itchy, called urethritis. It can happen to men and women.
An infection of a woman’s reproductive organs, called pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which can make it hard to get pregnant.
An inflamed cervix, called cervicitis

Scientists aren’t sure if an MG infection can make it hard for men to get a woman pregnant.

Treatment
MG can be a tricky problem to treat. Common antibiotics like penicillin kill bacteria by damaging a germ’s cell walls. But MG bacteria don’t have cell walls, so these drugs don’t work very well.

Your doctor might try azithromycin (Zithromax, Zmax) first. If that doesn’t work, your doctor might give you moxifloxacin (Avelox).

Currently some crazy scientists are trying to create a more virulent form of the disease organism...

Mycoplasma laboratorium is a designed, partially synthetic species of bacterium derived from the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium. This effort in synthetic biology is being undertaken at the J. Craig Venter Institute by a team of approximately 20 scientists headed by Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith and including DNA researcher Craig Venter and microbiologist Clyde A. Hutchison III. Mycoplasma genitalium was chosen as it was the species with the smallest number of genes known at that time.

On May 21, 2010, Science reported that the Venter group had successfully synthesized the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides from a computer record and transplanted it into an existing cell of Mycoplasma capricolum that had had its DNA removed. The team used M. mycoides instead of M. genitalium because it grew faster. The new bacterium was viable—that is, capable of replicating billions of times—but not, strictly speaking, a truly synthetic life form.

It is estimated that the synthetic genome cost US$40 million and 200 man-years to produce.[b 2] Despite the controversy, Venter's company Synthetic Genomics has secured over $110 million in investment capital and inked a $300 million deal with Exxon Mobil to design algae for diesel fuel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium

Tell me why this is a good thing?

Is this a bid to create a vaccine of sorts

Or a biofuel?!

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