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

Biologist Dan Gibson edits and programs DNA, just like coders program a computer. But his "code" creates life, giving scientists the power to convert digital information into biological material like proteins and vaccines. Now he's on to a new project: "biological transportation," which holds the promise of beaming new medicines across the globe over the internet. Learn more about how this technology could change the way we respond to disease outbreaks and enable us to download personalized prescriptions in our homes.
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[@georgeb9977]

I never imagined we have gotten THIS far on this subject already! I LOVE TED!

[@YiannisNeophytou]

A great tool at its full potential… for the right cause, full of hope in doing so much good with the rights minds / hands, for the people. Thank you, Dr. Dan Gibson.

[@raavifilms1106]

Yiannis Neophytou Yeaah You are right.The most emerging technology of present era

[@YiannisNeophytou]

The Creative Short Films Thank you!

[@wisemenstillseekhim3114]

Mad science....

[@TateIsaacs]

This is insane, no idea the technology was this advanced 5 years ago, this is super cool!

[@shanghai_city]

This guy is genius and we should be thankful for his research in this area. I hope he succeeds in his quest. We need more people like him in our society to progress.

[@Torxed]

The right people researching and building the right things, amazing work Gibson and the team(s) contributing to this. Truly amazing!

[@josht9518]

Dan Gibson has given this talk quite a few times... at least that's what I hear in his voice.

[@allpraisetothemosthighyah]

MessagE!

[@TheTwick]

Please make me 1 Kate Upton, whose genome is: ATTGACCCTAGGTTTGCA.... (am I going too fast for you?) AATCGCGATC...

[@marwanalmoflhi7801]

First. I am not a doctor or medical field worker so i didn't understand all the words in the presentation but; Using this technology as the way the Mr. Dan Ginbson presented is very dangerous, he mentioned that his team is thinking about the security issues of this technology but he said that with governments help this issue will be solved but actually this is the problem, Governments should not be trusted for the security of the technology, have you heard politicians requesting math scientists and programmers to leave backdoors in encryption algorithms to be used later by government officers why to fight terrorism, some governments are the official face of terror, What if a major country government (like U.S., Russia or China govts.) requested to stop or not allow DNA printers to work in some countries (i.e. North Korea, Iran or Yemen) who will help fighting diseases and curing patients? The answer is no one.

[@thanglaka9543]

I agree with that Govt n security of the technology. We've seen what the smoking man and Scully, Mulder team battle.

[@debbiehahn5622]

Im thinking about the movie I'm Legend. Nothing could possibly go wrong!

[@resourcefulgirl]

True Debbie. Nothing like a little predictive programming. Love that movie!

[@primedup8741]

When you play plague Inc at the highest difficulty

[@shkronjax]

counterplague 10

[@alexbarton6003]

this aged...interestingly

[@primedup8741]

@@alexbarton6003 wow this definitely was a twist I didn't want

[@sistemsylar]

aged beautifully

[@KaptifLaDistillerie]

There's an error in the video title, it's : " How to sell DNA data on the World Market "

[@rubbish9231]

Isn't it useless

[@yurchiie]

Doing gibson assembly in our lab very routinely, seeing how young he is blows my mind!

[@tanstars2436]

The oldest humans DNA was found at etopia in Lucy 3.5 millions years old shalatan at etopia(Africa)

[@meiu7652]

TAN STARS Ethiopia*

[@tomaszzylinski5267]

This is amazing!

[@Praveen-dg2nm]

Mindblowing

[@xXxD3ATHMAU5xXx]

This is insane, but exciting at the same time!

[@codybattery8370]

Can youtube algorithm recognise this video that predicted the future perfectly?

[@Artur_Martins]

This is amazing as well as worrisome.

[@ritikanijhavan7815]

Well... science is finding new ways and opportunities for making a better future . This was way amazing .

[@00godlovesus]

Thank you:)

[@waelalshamare393]

I think the machine "DBC" it is great step in field medical "Pathological analyzes" or "Pathology" "Opto Genetics" in the level bacteria and viruses, so I thought about the "DBC" can it make Lentiviral vector production??

[@ganeshhebbar931]

Vry great idea...

[@hna2q89]

Why is he confused? His breath sounds clear!

[@thanglaka9543]

living creatures creation - wow. Astro-microbiologists surely love it.

[@buddy77587]

I'm so happy!

[@DeepakSingh-vm6fw]

Super exciting technology !

[@id104335409]

Real viruses can now travel instantly through the internet and pop up at the other side of the world as a digital clone.

[@Mirabell97]

How do you build the vaccine, simply from knowing it’s Genome? It isn’t as easy as that - if you just replicate the virus, well, it’s just that: the virus, causing immunity AND the disease - does anyone know, how exactly they built the virus? Are there any publications?

[@hannaho888]

Admiration 100%

[@Mirabell97]

When he mentioned that he‘s the Gibson-Assembly-guy I gasped - well, I guess I‘m a nerd now

[@keplerskitty5949]

These scientists are my heroes.

[@eeyoresbutt3747]

Almost like predictive programming 🤔

[@SunnyState0]

Fax machine a la Dan Simmons, love it

[@mahesh-9]

Artificial DNA is great concept.... Like artificial intelligence

[@raavifilms1106]

James Artificial humana have been created.Its jusy DNA

[@DanielFenandes]

Impressive

[@gracennoviana9419]

amazing

[@joannot6706]

That's ground breaking, one of the best ted talk about science I have ever seen!!! 10:02 : John Lithgow is not impressed though.

[@ajinkyamehere5365]

John Lithgow is not a scientist, and probably not even a science enthusiast like us.

[@joannot6706]

I can read his name thank you, this one is name Theodore, it's joke man ^^

[@xero3995]

where is this man now.. people dying man.. where is your machine now

[@FTLNewsFeed]

"What could go wrong?" Things will go wrong, you only have to look at any new technology to know that. It's what could go right that matters. What goes wrong will lead to measures, countermeasures, and a society that learns to live with the consequences.

[@primitiveplanet8202]

What he didn't say and is possible and will happen is sending DNA instruction for a human being and then printing one out. Maybe not today but the way to that option is now open.

[@kylin3197]

cool!

[@erickkyle28]

We finally did it 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Myrslokstok]

Well the most inportant thing with the syntetic life is that the church have no objection to how it is used. Otherwise you can take an ordinary cell and mix with. This cuts the band between religion and sience and that is the real big step with it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@luqmaanladane40]

720th viewer! this number is the most remembered one for me because my first salary when I started working was $720. Additionally this lecture is amazing thank you Dr. Gibson.

[@Devakshi102]

Great lecture by Dr dan gibson Why it wasn't used to treat NIPAH virus infection spread in kerala india ??

[@danilaplee]

this can be used even to print dna that can grow into anything else wow

[@proyectofenixbymmee3825]

I do not speak english, please You can put subtitles in spanish. I read more and I see your video and I understand best the video, thanks

[@Farsmezan]

Visionary

[@Jammarart]

If you can print living cells, you could make perfect matches to blood cells for a person who needs blood. Or if you want to take it a bit farther, and make stem cells.

[@raavifilms1106]

NullSpace Games Right

[@KamuiXV]

And Perfect matching Organs for transplantation!

[@Jammarart]

I was thinking more along the lines of what this video talks about; kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5vHoYVjib5ph7c being able to make stem cells rather then have to take them from someone else would make it a lot more possible.

[@thomasarthurmaj]

He sounds like Stephen Hawking. Awesome talk!

[@Rai_Ajmal_khan]

Have or can you try converting synthetic cells to a stem cell.....

[@karl0h580]

13:53 just Made me belive in a awesome future for life

[@lightcreatif]

How accurate today ...

[@Content4free78]

3D DNA Printing is the first step to making Jurassic park happen

[@pablog.3906]

Something like this was done in Japan long before the human genone was decoded. A kind of analogic storage media writing on nucleotides. Great capacity but the possibility to ensemble unknown viruses after certain lenght of sequences was real. Saving thousand of lives on a finite and collapsing world with 230k new inhabitants per day, that's an issue.

[@cesarramirez8919]

This is amazing. You guys are to pessimistic

[@Biggus_Diggus1]

You mean *too pessimistic

[@redtails]

So many buzz words and futuristic applications, you can tell the presenter is NOT amused by his own talk because he is used to giving much more indepth presentations with actual substance

[@insignificantfool8740]

Can anybody send me the indominus rex dna

[@jackpullen3820]

Who would have thought, biological teleportation for terraforming the planet Mars...

[@narrowcastmediagroup1128]

WOW the future is coming!

[@dushimejohnroderick7020]

How much better can life improve, how much more will tech change this life, what can get between the power of the mind and humans ability to be creative.

[@johnkesich8696]

Hold that thought when you fall victim to a virus that was custom tailored to kill you. You may also want to ask your questions of the Yemenis, Palestinians, Syrians, Lybians, Rhohingya and countless other victims of repression and exploitation around the world. And do recall that this technology is in the hands of the psychos who engineered our current opioid epidemic and war profiteers. What could possibly go wrong?

[@deondeondeon1]

good

[@SuperAtheist]

I want milk produced by bacteria.

[@daddyleon]

You can, and without lactose! Much cheaper including in terms of carbon footprint, as long as there's a bit of R&D and economy of scale put into it.

[@rubbish9231]

Milk is already produced by bacteria... Wtf dude

[@DavidLopez-sc1pm]

Just like everything in the internet, it gets corrupted. It will.

[@inventionexchange]

Prescriptions.

[@MuzikaLov]

what a nice way to manipulate the verbage on essentially injecting genetically modified synthetic codes into humans having no understanding whatsoever of the large scale consequences of using such codes on a living cell, farless the implications of what the uptake of such synthetic codes by other organisms, will be. If Monsanto's genetically modified herbicides caused cancer rates to skyrocket in those who came directly and indirectly in contact with that product, I can only imagine what these genetically modified injectables will do to people. Cells are themselves complex and they work in harmony with a complex ecosystem that is our biome. This is nothing short of a bio-exploit that is being rushed onto the market for the purpose of greed and using vaccines and gain of function viruses as the synthetic catalyst in that approach. It's reproachable. No wonder he was sweating throughout his entire speech.

[@resourcefulgirl]

Nothing could go wrong here.....Do most scientists have a lack of imagination?

[@TheCarrifaery]

there goes the neighborhood..

[@TheCarrifaery]

1.9k who up voted this video hate human life as we currently know it.

[@badroulbadour1]

So, in theory, we could teleport ourselves to Mars. But how do you attach consciousness?

[@tamarasmith9060]

Flemming Sørensen We r nowhere close to being able to read and copy the human mind so Star Trek style "transporters" not happening in our lifetime. We could make cloned cells from materials shipped there, but then the cells would have to then grow into a full sized clone in a short time or it would still be massively impractical.

[@Biggus_Diggus1]

@@tamarasmith9060 you could, in theory, copy a mind in its present state. Yes. But a soul and spirit can not be copied.

[@JamieBettison]

I thought it was being dictated by Stephen Hawking!!! That voice!

[@rossm9847]

Printing viruses.. What could go wrong.. 🤦‍♂️

[@tempname8263]

Alright, time to switch flesh for metal.

[@phanupongasvakiat337]

Whose number should be reduced first,-the 99% or 1%? Which would more effectively and rapidly solve this world’s problem?

[@ajinkyamehere5365]

Yes, 99% are good people. We can't hold back the enormous life-saving potential of this technology for fear of getting it into the hands of bad guys. And, with proper precautions and regulation, we can significantly reduce the chances of getting this wrong.

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

Meh I'd say mother nature is miles ahead there....she's had a few billion years head start....

[@BushLieWorldDie]

The beginning of the end.

[@guruabyss]

Rick and Morty battery episodes IRL

[@ahmadabueid8346]

❤️

[@Night-hb5sh]

He’s my uncle

[@jg997]

No more opt outs for egg allergies now.

[@bethslifka9029]

Really, really , scary

[@jacklastname5427]

Rip I thought we just unlocked dna for data storage

[@theprodigyfan11]

If there is war in the world, there is danger. As long as the money owner's of the world keep living this live. We're doomed no matter what they invent. You won't even need all those invention's.

[@erpampa94]

so we just stop doing everything because there could be a war? what kind of comment is that?

[@ahmd90z]

We need TRANSLATE to Arabic, please

[@MegamanXGold]

As much as it's neat (in a morbid way) to think of how these could be the start of Resident Evil, or how lame it is to consider that (pretty sure) current interplanetary law dictates that we cannot contaminate other worlds like Mars with new biological material at least until we know for sure it is entirely barren, technology like this will meet a lot of resistance and red tape. The most powerful and useful advances in science will always be held back the worst, and for the wrong reasons. If these went international, the UN would have to regulate and closely guard them, I would think, no matter what country they're in. At least for the foreseeable future.

[@rosanapinto1268]

Hello, I'm from Brazil. Estive lendo hoje, 26 de abril de 2022, seu comentário feito há 3 anos. Gostaria de saber se você ainda pensa da mesma forma.

[@mohanakrishna4626]

Why this is not used for corona virus

[@FranklinW]

It is. That's how the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are made.

[@zegzezon5539]

*Darn!* *Gibson Assembly!* = _How many of us could have our names as names of _*_processes_*_ or _*_procedures?_* My salute this man! 🖖 🎖️

[@CassandraBankson]

*this is fascinating. I await the day we can reconstruct and print whiter organisms like kittens.* I would be happy forever.

[@Overonator]

And how close are we to understanding what all that DNA does? Don't get me wrong being able to read and write is fundimental but you have to know what to write and for that you need to know what that DNA does. Saying that you are writing sentences and paragraphs is not a good analogy because when you write a sentence or paragraph you know what that sentence and paragraph means but with DNA that is overwhelmingly not the case.

[@FeroxX_Gosu]

Who is here after the new Kurzgesagt video?...

[@AG-id4qv]

THATS MY UNCLE

[@DIYBiotech]

Fears of global pandemic hits different in 2020

[@ahgaheart2335]

Sounds cool! But you can screw up so much!

[@chrisjhart]

This guy sounds like Stephen Hawking's voice computer thing.

[@fabricekdk6573]

chrisjhart221138, For sure He might have changed his own DNA.

[@Artur_Martins]

I had the same impression...

[@ergohack]

Yah, it looked to me like he'd memorized his entire speech beforehand.

[@ajinkyamehere5365]

It doesn't work like that. For that, he would have to change his DNA while he was in his mother's womb!

[@ajinkyamehere5365]

@fabrice kdk

[@JustNoxid]

cure for cancer?

[@ajinkyamehere5365]

Yes, very much possible! Especially, with the personalized medicine perspective.

[@nigolt.4345]

Oh man, a criminal's dream come true. Digital Heroin with zero transportation cost.

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

61 creationists disliked this video... then had a mental breakdown.

[@angeladauria7954]

Attenzione a fare Dio 😱

[@hphp7587]

this guy is insane. could become the man who ended the world.

[@salvahazana7629]

The netsphere is coming

[@jimmoushoul6985]

I just watched this Talk while I recover from COVID. I have no deep understanding what Dan Gibson was saying but wondering why or could it be used for COVID Vaccine. Thanks

[@abstractbybrian]

can you make a dinosaur? I'm not joking. Could this be done with this method? I would loooooove to see a real dinosaur some day; how exciting. Now that I think about more. Wouldn't this almost be like what happened in the movie The Fly?

[@Jammarart]

abstractsbybrian not likely, the DNA if any is left at all from dinosaurs is too old and you wouldn’t be able to make one.

[@raavifilms1106]

I liked your thought

[@P1ranh4]

Pretty sure there's no intact dinosaur DNA intact, so anything similar to the Jurassic Park story is impossible. They're already struggling with the woolly mammoth. Also this method is creating single celled organisms and viruses, not stem cells of more complicated organisms that could be used for creating the first stages of an embryo. Also breeding a huge organism requires a womb or egg of some kind, which is all a lot more complicated than printing a DNA strand and implanting it into a cell.

[@DanielFenandes]

I don't think so. Although you could print the DNA of the dinosaur if you had the info

[@STRING3R]

Go home John Hammond you're drunk

[@jooky87]

Wow, this is far out, makes all our other tech look primitive.

[@Odyvers]

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