Viruses
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The same technology that has produced the human insulin in bacteria can make
viruses
that will not only protect you against themselves, but induce immunity against other
viruses.
So you can have a billion different
viruses
that are all genetically identical, but they differ from each other based on their tips, on one sequence, that codes for one protein.
Now if you take all billion viruses, and put them in one drop of liquid, you can force them to interact with anything you want on the periodic table.
Basically,
viruses
can't replicate themselves; they need a host.
These
viruses
are long and skinny, and we can get them to express the ability to grow something like semiconductors or materials for batteries.
We've been able to engineer
viruses
to pick up carbon nanotubes and then grow titanium dioxide around them, and use it as a way of getting electrons through the device.
And this was a very productive time in gene therapy, and lots of
viruses
were coming along, so this turned out to be fairly simple.
And you can do that; you can tweak the
viruses
so they hit some cells and not others.
And just as one example of the kind of thing you can do, you can take a complex network, use one of these
viruses
to deliver the gene just to one kind of cell in this dense network.
And in both cases, we were able to use genetic sequencing to look at the polio viruses, and we could tell these
viruses
were not from these countries.
This is one of the very few
viruses
in the world where there are big enough cracks in its armor that we can try to do something truly extraordinary.
Within a couple of years, every country that started polio eradication rapidly eradicated all three of their polio viruses, with the exception of four countries that you see here.
The new vaccine had twice the impact on these last couple of
viruses
as the old vaccine had, and we immediately started using this.
So let me just point out: memes are like
viruses.
And I got some sort of satisfaction from learning that both Basit and Amjad had had their computers infected dozens of times by completely unrelated other
viruses
over these years.
Now, the
viruses
that we used to see in the 1980s and 1990s obviously are not a problem any more.
What we have here is a list of old
viruses.
So let me just run some
viruses
on my computer.
So it used to be fairly easy to know that you're infected by a virus, when the
viruses
were written by hobbyists and teenagers.
Today,
viruses
are a global problem.
So we can actually see in real time that we've just blocked
viruses
in Sweden and Taiwan and Russia and elsewhere.
In fact, if I just connect back to our lab systems through the Web, we can see in real time just some kind of idea of how many viruses, how many new examples of malware we find every single day.
Well today, it's the organized criminal gangs writing these
viruses
because they make money with their
viruses.
And it started out quite a while ago, when someone wrote one of the first successful computer
viruses.
And the result is kind of a tree of life of these viruses, a phylogeny that looks very much like the type of life that we're used to, at least on the viral level.
But the idea was taken very quickly a little bit further, when a scientist working at the Santa Fe Institute decided, "Why don't we try to package these little
viruses
in artificial worlds inside of the computer and let them evolve?"
And he designed this system, but it really didn't work, because his
viruses
were constantly destroying each other.
An average teaspoon of clean seawater has five million bacteria and 50 million
viruses
in it.
And in uncovering viruses, Beijerinck really opened this entirely new world for us.
We now know that
viruses
make up the majority of the genetic information on our planet, more than the genetic information of all other forms of life combined.
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