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We do biology, we do hardware, and Nicholas Negroponte famously said, "Demo or die," as opposed to "Publish or perish," which was the traditional academic way of thinking.
We've got this wonderful, great chain of explanation, we're used to it, where physics explains chemistry, chemistry explains biology,
biology
explains parts of psychology.
I love science and
biology.
I'm an artist who's worked for many years with biology, with scientific processes, so living material is not uncommon for me.
I believe that animation can change
biology.
And I was a — I'd studied
biology.
What happens when such people have mastered synthetic
biology
techniques that will be widespread by 2050?
Today, big-data approaches are transforming ever-larger sectors of our economy, and they could do the same in
biology
and medicine, too.
So almost all the
biology
that we observe can be thought of as a series of problems and their corresponding solutions, and the first problem that every organ must solve is a continuous supply of nutrients to fuel all those cells of the body.
It uses state-of-the-art molecular biology, a low-cost, 3D-printed device, and data science to try to tackle one of humanity's toughest challenges.
We're all familiar with the macro impact of urbanization, climate change, resource exploitation, but when that one last plant — or animal for that matter — when that very last specimen has disappeared from the face of this Earth, we would have lost an entire subset of the Earth's biology, and with it, important plants with medicinal potential or which could have ingredients that would speak to the cosmetic, nutrition, pharma, and even the ethno-veterinary sectors, be gone forever.
Now, what was extraordinary here is not just that they beat all of the algorithms developed by Merck or the international academic community, but nobody on the team had any background in chemistry or
biology
or life sciences, and they did it in two weeks.
In biology, the notions of symbiosis, group selection, evolutionary psychology are contested, to be sure.
But there is really no longer any major debate over the fact that cooperative arrangements have moved from a peripheral role to a central role in biology, from the level of the cell to the level of the ecology.
When the scientific method provided that new way of thinking and
biology
showed that microorganisms caused disease, suffering was alleviated.
So we're trying to redefine how we look at our future in outer space by exploring integration, biology, technology and people; by using a cocreation approach; and by using and exploring local traditions and to see how we can learn from the past and integrate that into our deep future.
When it was time to choose a field of study, I chose to study
biology
at Peking University in Beijing.
Now, what this means is that our experience of reality is constrained by our biology, and that goes against the common sense notion that our eyes and our ears and our fingertips are just picking up the objective reality that's out there.
So we already know that we can marry our technology to our biology, because there are hundreds of thousands of people walking around with artificial hearing and artificial vision.
So what this means is this: The lesson that surfaces is that there's nothing really special or fundamental about the
biology
that we come to the table with.
We have advances in
biology
that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen and be able to make drugs and vaccines that fit for that pathogen.
And we don't know yet if the methane in question is really from geology or
biology.
So when people talk about saving bees, my interpretation of that is we need to save our relationship to bees, and in order to design new solutions, we have to understand the basic
biology
of bees and understand the effects of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
I had not taken any biology, even in college, so I had to go from a
biology
textbook to a college-level textbook and then medical textbook and the journal articles, back and forth, and eventually I knew enough to think that it might be possible that somebody could find a cure.
We're actually starting at a new point: we've been digitizing biology, and now we're trying to go from that digital code into a new phase of
biology
with designing and synthesizing life.
We've been digitizing it now for almost 20 years; when we sequenced the human genome, it was going from the analog world of
biology
into the digital world of the computer.
We knew there's a mechanism called homologous recombination that
biology
uses to repair DNA that can put pieces together.
So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of
biology.
When you think of processing these 20 million different genes or trying to optimize processes to produce octane or to produce pharmaceuticals, new vaccines, we can just with a small team, do more molecular
biology
than the last 20 years of all science.
But the only way we think that
biology
can have a major impact without further increasing the cost of food and limiting its availability is if we start with CO2 as its feedstock, and so we're working with designing cells to go down this road.
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