7.29.2018

Dan Gibson : How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet


Dan Gibson at TED2018
How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet  (transcript)
Summary
I knew again from the story that combining science and the internet is really great.

The process of the flu vaccine manufacturing is amazingly chagined by inventing a biological printer that can be called biological teleportation. In the generation, not only a person but even medicines and vaccines can teleport. 
First, the functions and characteristics of all biological entities that include viruses and living cells could be written into the code of DNA. The biological printer can read and write that code of DNA, then they can be reconstructed and printed in a distant location.

Until now, its process was that the virus was isolated, packaged up, sent, injected into chicken eggs, incubated, and you have to wait for six months to use.

In the near future, personalized medicines can be printed at bedsides of patients in every hospital without any human intervention immediately. Countries and hospitals don't need to stock and ship vaccines. Nothing is left over but is shorted, however, it can save thousands of lives.

Words in this story
teleportation /noun/  the fictional or imagined process by which matter is instantaneously transferred from one place to another.
abstract /adj/ theoretical, conceptual, notional
utilization /noun/ use, usage, employment, exercise
biomaterial / synthetic or natural material suitable for use in constructing artificial organs and prostheses or to replace bone or tissue.
fabricate /verb/ create, make, build, prepare
deposit /noun/  money paid on account, partial payment, part payment

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