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The cells in your body are like computer software: they’re “programmed” to carry out specific functions at specific times. If we can better understand this process, we could unlock the ability to reprogram cells ourselves, says computational biologist Sara-Jane Dunn. In a talk from the cutting-edge of science, she explains how her team is studying embryonic stem cells to gain a new understanding of the biological programs that power life — and develop “living software” that could transform medicine, agriculture and energy.
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Thank you for sharing. =)
now someone's gonna write some JS framework for this thing too…
you only need to remove pain. Mental and physical. I just ended suffering for most humans if this ever becomes plausable.
I’m waiting for my smart biological phone.
I'm curious as to how CRISPR would be part of what she's trying to do, once after the labour of forming mathematical models of cellular mechanisms has been done.
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good to know
This reminds me of Horizon Zero Dawn
This woman is so inteligent and visionary
About this technology, I somehow think China has far more knowledge and experiences than other countries.
Wow! I hope this happens.
If you want to talk about the ethics of this, then why not discuss the ethics of destroying embryos?
Ray Kurzweil predicted this over 11 years ago. It will happen.
This a revolutionary, highly challenging idea that may help
The difference is that any living cells exist by creation, hence its perfect. perfectly understanding the working of it might not be possible. Secondly there should be zero error in its implementation since it's dealing with life of a beaing.
Software engineers generally are unable even to get a zero bug computer program. Then how is this going to be logical
But I think it may help to fix certen level of biological issues , if succeeded
My friends .. there is still a prophecy to be fulfilled in the Bible that describes the following …
"And that day they sought death, but they did not find it, death fled from them …" any coincidence ??
They will probably achieve this supposed defeat of death, but they will bring great harm to their lives.
It's more complicated, it reacts to conscience, you are happy and a miracle happens cells react instant.
Slave live stock tax generated economy biobeing chemiconsumtion image happy bacteria skin
Delusional woman
Getting some serious grey goo vibes here, what could go wrong!?
The only problem of human science is that there are allowed to work only morons and freaks of nature and for normal guys this is restricted area
Trying to be god's and create their own species believing they can improve humans. Not good.
That was awesome
Imagine going to best buy to get an upgraded arm
THICC
So……Let us declare aging a disease. The issues you are talking about after the fact are secondary and related to different "causes" or silos. As David Sinclair calls this "whack a mole" health, the underlying cause of all these diseases ignored. You are dealing with this but in an exclusive domain of funding. As a before the disease treatment of the yet to emerge malady an anti-aging approach would come into the domain of public health and save the funding of band-aid solution treating symptoms. This would avert the hegemony of Microsoft and make research in this direction public funding.
A multidisciplinary group at UC Berkeley and an institute in China have been researching biological computation since the 1970's. Read "The Body Electric" by Dr. Robert Becker to understand the interface with the living creature.
soon enough people will be immortal fr
Sara said something which I have been suspecting for awhile now: DNA is holographic, running under quantum principals. If so, that would explain the incredible entanglement of the helix it's self. Which hints to the reason why our brain is so crevassed, and as one becomes more intelligent, more so it becomes.
Being said, that would give rise to truly living, functional, "Created" beings as such as we are, but being silicon instead of a carbon based entity. . ?
Knock-knock. . . "Good to see you friend!. . Come in, come in!.. Welcome to dinner! Would you like a bowl of sand with a glass of some hot, freshly squeezed D.I. water? Maybe an arsenic biscuit too??"
Thank God there are still people who want to die.
Is this just the imagination or they actually have this technology ?
Invest in iBio now only $0.27 a share.
OMG!
So many buzzwords! but they are at least 20 years old.
These are the mad scientists we watched movies about as kids.
6:00,,couple of videos ago, They were talking about interfacing AI with the neurotransmitters of the human brain,,,talk about regulating
Technology better be in harmony with nature.
The hubris of science knows no bounds. This technology will surely bring new disasters of epic proportion
Just a simple story about regenerative medicine or bioengineering.
I expected something about a fusion of IT and biology from title…
Hope there are no dependencies…. sorry angular