Mark Rober's DNA Nerf Gun Raises Possibility of Medical Breakthroughs

[@anyadike]

They didn't invent any techniques or technology, but they raised awareness on what is possible with current technology... "Wait, we can create medical breakthroughs with this stuff?"

[@korrawright5781]

I honestly think it's that many people haven't realized just how far we've come in the last 20/10/5/2 years, etc

[@codejunki567]

I think you got it wrong

[@Volt64bolt]

@@codejunki567I think yo’ekrke wrong

[@the_expidition427]

@@codejunki567 Then prove it and in turn continue adding to progress

[@travissiegwart8276]

Mark Rober didn't invent this...sure. But you're taking away from the accomplishment of all those scientist who DID invent this very new technique. You're downplaying innovation.

[@ExopMan]

DNA origami has been a super popular research topic since a breakthrough paper in 2006. His video just gives the general public a glimpse in this effort by "real" researchers. (Mark being a retired engineer turned science communicator)

[@cryora]

How popular are we talking about?

[@mr_brass_monkey]

no for real the frist actually perpetual motion machine is built out of dna

[@NA-nz9lv]

Mark Rober is an example of what someone can be if they show modesty and willingness to learn even as they age. He's obviously a very smart guy but whenever he does something new he goes and learns more about it until he can do it, I really respect that.

[@c64116]

i agree! But mr beast is the polar opposite. a garbage human.

[@PrivilegeYT]

Zoolander - WHAT IS THIS!? A NERF GUN FOR ANTS? Mark - Actually, yes!

[@KashitoTsuki]

@@ckallukActually 100,000x bigger!

[@abundantharmony]

Bleh, Jim Cary people.

[@sk-sm9sh]

it's way too small for ants though, it's actually too small even for a flu virus

[@mikelbrenn111]

How can little children play with this nerf guns if they can't even fit it into their hands!

[@ZaynneThaWook]

@@abundantharmony?

[@gavinhelgeson2880]

I guess mark has the record for the most manufactured nerf guns also

[@martinwinther6013]

Imagine the fine if Nerf gave him a copyright strike, and they demanded compensation based on units produced..

[@censorthesenuts]

nerf gun company should appreciate the reference. keeps them relevant. only a foolish CEO would do something like take a low blow and sue the small guy with big influence.@@martinwinther6013

[@SuprSBG]

@@martinwinther6013aw naaahhhhh

[@arguedscarab7985]

@@martinwinther6013 lmfao, that would be the end of nerf guns. lol

[@Ollay245]

​@@martinwinther6013might actually work, I assume there would be a large consumer backlash though probably not big enough to trouble the business Let's face it he's only raised awareness of their product really

[@Spiffier]

It’s also fitting to mention the original creator of nerf was an aerospace engineer

[@entemomohTV]

Fun fact: Glass isn't actually very "stiff" it's actually easier to bend than steel. However, it's bittle, so it shatters before any big deformation happens

[@residensetresidenset6930]

But then there’s optical fiber. Very bendy stuff. With a G657 spec fiber of the right version you could bend it to the diameter of a penny, or less.

[@PrivilegeYT]

with proper intention and proper application, you can achieve what you need.

[@rhetoric5173]

Tell Em

[@Ithirahad]

Glass can be very sproingy under the right circumstances, but those are also the circumstances under which it's liable to just rip/crack.

[@coreytaylor5386]

so, basically in this context its the same difference

[@soulstealer_actual]

Mark is one of those humans whose simple existence is a blessing to our kind. He puts out content and knowledge out there that simply just fuels the hope within me that, regardless of what happens in the future, people like Mark are going to make our world a better place experiment by experiment. Even if some of his videos are absolutely "useless technology" or research, it still shows the only thing that keeps mankind in a standstill, is itself. Mark is the personification of the human trait of making the impossible, possible.

[@DariusRoland]

I saw Mark Rober's video awhile back and was as always extremely impressed with him. What an awesome human!

[@Allexz]

How about we celebrate the people that dedicate their lives to researching the things possible for a KZbin entertainer to show off? I love Marks content, but he is just that, a content creator, an entertainer. We really ought to celebrate the people behind the curtains more than a guy making a fun video...

[@TiredMoonRabbit]

​@@Allexzhe does, all the time actually, also didn't he worked at NASA, i think that makes him more than just a content creator.

[@noiseywastaken]

@@Allexz Nah, hes worked and made components on the mars rover. he's that guy.

[@DariusRoland]

@@Allexz That seemed to be precisely what CNET was doing through the lens of Rober's work.

[@weebto]

@@Allexz he literally helped put a rover on mars. He *is* among those behind the curtain

[@johnathondavis2777]

Y'all hit me in the gut hard. At 2:42 is an electrophoresis machine. It's not the same model but my dad used to make those for a company called Edvotek. They are used for DNA testing. That brought back a lot of memories.

[@animereverie4380]

Mark’s out here reequipping the killer t-cells.

[@iluvpandas2755]

The immune system needed more weaponry

[@Jayeeyee]

Let's be honest, it's more of a nano chicken nugget than it is a nerf gun.

[@AdamBechtol]

Mmm

[@BidenGD]

Shrinkflation is wild

[@smashypeople]

Maaaaaaannn. I first subbed to Mark Rober when he had like 5k subs and was making Halloween costumes with iPads. The last sentence he said in this video is so damn scifi. Awesome to see how far he's gone.

[@shyguymercedesbenz5845]

"How will we fight cancer?" "Sell them 1 trillion guns"

[@AdamBechtol]

'Merica! lol

[@iluvpandas2755]

Go immune system enjoy the free weapons!!

[@SparkyWrench]

1000 yrs from now a 3rd grader is doing their typical DNA sequencing of frogs, "Mrs Johnson? Why are these DNA sequences shaped like ancient nerf guns?"

[@GodbornNoven]

Bold of you to assume the broken educational system is gonna persist a thousand years

[@tarun9542]

I doubt it would be a Mrs. Johnson, because she stopped identifying as a woman when she was a teenager😂 It'll probably be a Mrs. Kumar or Mrs. Lee

[@RealLifeTech187]

wow really interesting how DNA can be used otherwise

[@DVRGNT]

Click bait

[@momvanup]

Funny. The comment about glass being flexible reminds me of Andymations glass flip book. My favorite KZbinrs are always so connected.

[@mc4ndr3]

me: hey boss, i cured cancer boss: stop doing that and get back to moving the client's logo three pixels to the left

[@jasonpatterson8091]

They didn't even make a Nerf gun on that scale, any more than any kid who ever broke a stick off to make a pretend pistol made a pistol. They made a DNA molecule that took a shape vaguely like a gun using technology entirely developed by other people.

[@Oakie222]

It’s a ant man gun😂😂 you’re a genius

[@michaelwiggins9926]

My friend CJ used to do this when he was in a band years ago

[@GameOver-qk2ys]

This timeline is literally insane 😂

[@Nanobits]

Most of the important discoveries in man kinds history have come from playing around with the limits of our imagination and discovery by mistakes.

[@cjplay2]

Engineer - tell me about tools and get me an example of what's possible. Scientist - I've been trying to deliver this thing to the place it needs to go. Bio-engineer - puts 2 and 2 together.

[@BMarie774]

People like Mark are a really changing the world. The history of humanity. He contributed to so much already in his life and he’s still a young guy! Incredible.

[@Mezuzah87]

😂

[@jmel1000]

He raised awareness to the public eye, he didn't make anything new.

[@vandarkholme4745]

It's the scientists that did all the progress, but a KZbinr got all the credits. Classic cnet.

[@pinnaplepinna]

mark is a scienties 🤯

[@charliekowittmusic]

I hope you feel the same way about Elon Musk and his teams of scientists and engineers.

[@pinnaplepinna]

@@charliekowittmusic no f Elon that annoying asse claiming he does everything when he really just used his dads money to buy companies.

[@cryora]

It's progress in different areas. Scientists refine the methodology. Other people find applications for the methodology and popularize it.

[@ShyGuySpirit]

Wouldn't our immune system just attack the foreign DNA if it enters our body? It is cool that we can get that small. We would probably have to use immunosuppressant for it, I guess like organ transplants.

[@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am]

You could add the patient's antigenes (surface proteins used for recognition by immune cells) to the machines.

[@lack_of_awareness]

@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_amissue is this also means you can make the perfect virus

[@ShadowDior]

@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am that would probably be extremely expensive though, since you would have to tailor make it specifically for that one person. I’m assuming the equipment they use is not that cheap either lol

[@randybugger3006]

​@@ShadowDiorthe only expensive part is prep and testing (lab staff). The actual manufacturing process is extremely cheap

[@ShardulIyer]

​@@ShadowDiordepends, for example - there's actually this drug called keytruda which has been used in immunotherapy. The reason this drug is special as it was created by taking parts from high affinity mice cells and binding them to a type of immune isocell to make the drug. Granted that the drug is still expensive & how they managed to stabilize that medicine before CRISPR CAS9 is beyond me yet seeing drugs like keytruda and recent mRNA vaccine, i guess there are ways to bypass immune system for drug delivery. Also as the body regularly encounters lot of foreign stuff, it's possible that certain materials don't trigger immune response (certain implants) while some do.

[@arrowheadgaming4086]

Wow we’re right at the nano tech

[@zr2ee1]

lol do these guys get hand me down cleanroom gowns? IM Flash is a defunct memory company i used to work for

[@Blazeww]

That's stupid. Didn't even build it himself as it was just how parts of DNA form under certain conditions. And isn't even able to be fired. Like the main requirement of a Nerf gun.

[@juanmondragon]

You didn't see the video? It did fire

[@reyariass]

@@juanmondragonit’s a different one, micro one did fire but the dna one didn’t as it was just the shape of a nerf gun

[@dtibor5903]

​@@reyariassthey made it so small that it lacked the details for the firing mechanism. Still something

[@errorate6785]

the quasimoto statue is amazing

[@pilau]

INCREDIBLE!... great job Mark and everyone!

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

all nice and all but the smallest version is not able to fire so fire at "bad cells" is out of the question.

[@kingcroc801]

Bro is gonna give white blood cells glocks

[@Etienne.6329]

In journalism term : "Possibility of breakthrough" always means "nothing will happen"

[@ThePhrozenOne]

Mark is an engineer and entertainer. Mr Beast is... umm... umm.... an entertainer. I'll keep following Mark

[@yoashuain1]

Congratulations! This is why science is so much fun. It's even cooler when you come up with something new. 😁😎🤔

[@skootz24]

Help our body fight off bad stuff by literally giving our immune system GUNS. My inner American is ROCK HARD right now.

[@iokhufu]

if its small enough at 100nm to not let a 400nm light beam bounce off of it, why can we see it? why do we see it as an image? im curious

[@rcguymike]

Especially with the success of the wrangler 4xe idk why it took so long for this. A Wagoneer spec'd on this STLA platform will definitely be interesting... it'll probably be too expensive for us to afford but maybe 2nd hand in 10 years or maybe a wrecked and rebuilt one😅

[@tuckersaspy]

What video did you watch?

[@rcguymike]

@@tuckersaspy wow... KZbin bug, I hit post ~when autoplay went to the next video, and must have posted it here...I was watching about the new 2025 RamCharger PHEV😂

[@notatallbroe]

absolute insanity right like if they had just invested more into electric vehicles back when the leaf came out we would’ve been living through so many and much bigger breakthroughs with that tech 😂

[@rcguymike]

@@notatallbroe and GM was leading the pack, they could have literally been in the place where Tesla is and they dropped the EV program... that's what dumbfounds me...

[@rcguymike]

​@@tuckersaspy now I've actually had time to watch😁, I'll leave this here: 1.2 trillion nerf guns in a drop of saline. "There are now more of the worlds smallest Nerf guns, than there ever have or ever will be actual nerf guns...in a single drop of saline" - Mark Rober

[@bigdmcgee101mikwilla7]

Ill watch mark over a mr beasts gameshow anyday

[@raini_does_stuff5173]

nobody asked

[@Oz7ki]

@@raini_does_stuff5173I did

[@Thekidisalright]

@@raini_does_stuff5173nobody asked for your comment either lol

[@cameddy4081]

Mark - you are a lovable genius! Loved your 2023 MIT commencement address- freakin brilliant

[@mojomojo2091]

This is very impressive ! DNA will be used to hold data and make all HDD/SSD obsolete. idk why i have to add this but everyone replying are so shortsighted. Way back in 1894 Benz Velo the first production car was slammed for being "to slow" and was dismissed when they said it will only get faster and faster. look how far DNA testing has come and now able to use it to store data, to be so ignorant to assume it wont get faster then it is now after watching it faster and faster in the past decade. Almost as bad as when people say "we won't run out of oil"

[@e.v.k.3632]

Already long in use

[@mojomojo2091]

@@e.v.k.3632 good 👍 the world needs it.

[@lilducko]

How cool would it be to juice in a hhd and make it hold 100x more storage

[@mojomojo2091]

@lilducko use viles instead of hdd's

[@DeusExNihilo]

or maybe in bacteria...you walk in on two people making out and they're just like "what? we're just exchanging some files"@@mojomojo2091

[@Virologic]

You may not understand but Mark used to literally WORK FOR NASA as a rocket scientist

[@Tygearianus]

Michael Crichton wrote a book called Prey... nano bio tech more scary than people realize

[@godsinbox]

I def think he combs his hair when it's under the brim of his hat. We have reached peak American.

[@REDFUNDUH]

yet you still have flat earthers or people that thinks Earth is only 2,000 years old

[@evilweenie5743]

I'm sure nothing nefarious will come of this technology...

[@MassDynamic]

yes, equip ants with man-made weapons...now you just need a way to reliably issue commands to those ants.

[@stepver2273]

I can’t believe that some KZbinr can make actuall scientfic breakthroughs happen

[@ShaDwbUrn]

But he isn't just some youtuber. He used to work for nasa.

[@DwAboutItManFr]

Can you make like, just 1 of these DNA nerf guns instead?

[@Educationey]

Forget nerf guns, this is the world's smallest gun period. Dude made a gun out of DNA. Incredible. Didn't see it shoot though.

[@tylerpixel]

So Mark Rober is the worlds largest weapon manufactuer?

[@ZacabebOTG]

The world's *smallest* weapon manufacturer.

[@FlechetteArchery]

Mark Rober is nuts! ...in the coolest way possible. 😀

[@MagicPlants]

Why are you repeating clips? There's MILLIONS of stock video

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Interesting, but CNET reverses roles. Rober utilized a technology that raises the possibility of medical breakthroughs to make a DNA Nerf gun.

[@nitzkit]

Jessi your voice sounds almost exactly like Seth Meyers

[@VaughnCampbell]

Immagine if we find out the person who cures cancer was inspired as a kid by his video

[@jdb79jdb79]

If youtube didn't exist, Mark Rober may have cured cancer by now.

[@tokiomitohsaka7770]

Finally a gun for Osmosis Jones.

[@e.v.k.3632]

People have to much Money and free time Sadly I'm not under the lucky ones

[@dtibor5903]

You would just spend it cocaine and hookers

[@LineOfThy]

You wouldn't be there even if you had luck

[@martinerhard8447]

​@@LineOfThyWhy not? Filling a pool with elephant toothpaste is not hard, getting scientist to make you a nerf gun with dna origami isnt hard either

[@LineOfThy]

@@martinerhard8447 Did you go to NASA and study to become an engineer? Do you have even the remote amount of creativity and image to do any of this? Or are you just jealous that someone who is infinitely more smart than you could ever be was successful and you weren't?

[@heroninja1125]

​@@martinerhard8447I want you to spend 6 years studying and several more years working for some of the largest and most prestigious organizations in the world and come back. Mark rober certainly didn't get this out of nowhere.

[@lexdeobesean]

This is why it's important to foster creativity, silliness, goofiness, playfulness. Thinking out of the box is not something you just do, you have to train it. Free and liberated societies are more successful because of this.

[@plsbanhackers9031]

It’s not small it’s just cold

[@-sdg-]

Maybe mark can design something that will put his hat in his head correctly.

[@NetvoTV]

Why is non explosive bullet gun simply referenced and called as Nerf Gun now?

[@bigthreewheeler]

Because he literally made the world largest Nerf Gun (non explosive) first and now made the world's smallest.

[@Xevo79]

You’re missing the point. Nerf is a brand. This is not a Nerf branded foam blaster.

[@jacksonwalters5808]

Similarly to the brand Velcro, Nerf may have become the common nomenclature for any "dart" blasting toy gun.

[@Xevo79]

That would be a fair argument, except that Nerf has nearly abandoned the hobby in terms of cutting edge designs. They are regularly beaten by Dart Zone and Zuru for the last 3 or 4 years. In the hobby, we very much fall on the “nothing” side of Nerf’s old slogan.

[@DeusExNihilo]

Yeah but look at the Frisbee. The Wham-O toy company isn't the leader in that industry but everyone still calls them Frisbees. That might not be the case in the disc golf community, I don't know, but the layman still calls them that.@@Xevo79

[@R3_dacted0]

In before Hasbro files a copyright lawsuit.

[@boone7777777777]

Nice I like how your giving credit for the dna origami to some sensationalist like mark rober.

[@jomo9454]

Rober or burger entrepreneur - hmmm Rober might literally cure blindness (some might just need genetic repair of the retina for example, and this invention has the potential to deliver xNA possibly directly into an organelle if your aim is good enough but definitely scattered into a tissue with micelles that can slide into cells or even shoot hard enough to push the material through the cell membranes. The force can be altered by changing the base sequences of the springs... wow... this is just.... wow).

[@DawsonVonDarkcastle]

I think it's kind of hilarious that in this climate of social media where people bad mouth a lot of youtubers, it's kind of funny how A youtuber inadvertently Led to possible medical breakthroughs just because of his rivalry with another KZbinr.

[@michaelsphotography5662]

I’m imagining my white blood cells now armed with blasters

[@RealAadilFarooqui]

And people still believe button sized cameras or pin sized mic are not possible

[@hackmonkeydotnet]

"What inspires me to do any of the dumb stuff I do on my KZbin channel? I don't know." Money. It's money.

[@chienb]

You have individuals like Mark…and then ppl like the paul brothers

[@desensitized]

You have individuals that watch Mark, and then ppl that watch the paul brothers... Why do you make it about the people who find a niche to capitalize off of, and not the goofies that consume that niche.. The paul brothers are simply entertaining the people that, in currrent times, like fighting sports..

[@madxp9668]

White blood cell: cool new guns !

[@shyguymercedesbenz5845]

It's like Team America meets Osmosis Jones.

[@woegarden]

does anyone know the name of the song that's playing in the backing track?

[@VaibhavShewale]

well thats nice but its functional yet.

[@gesundheitoh520]

im in college and im going to do my thesis on a similar subject just because of mark's video🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Ryukachoo]

Is it bad this person sounds almost exactly like Dustin from smarter every day

[@inspectorsteve2287]

Once you have enough money it's literally impossible to fail on youtube.

[@z3ntropy]

Imagine nerf Corp filing a licensing lawsuit per gun

[@matthewkilner]

So what is the average size of a Nerf gun now if we include these?

[@doxielain2231]

No, it doesn't. He's just using known tech and communicating it to the lay public.

[@stephenroot1012]

Next: Nerf guns made with the help of white dwarf matter and pym particles.

[@tysonisham]

So now we know how life began. Random carbon structures (amino acids > proteins > DNA) sitting near ocean vents (test tubes at the right temperature) for long enough. I wonder how many times life emerged independently before it figured out replication.

[@AkPK369]

now i proud small things can make big revolution

[@poostiu]

Dude just became Tony Stark for the nano world 💀

[@R3TR0J4N]

This was brought awareness and come into a chasing fruition since the depiction of nanomachines in literature and media..

[@HybridSkills]

If it works. Mark's next video "How a youtuber cured cancer"

[@BlackEagle352]

Nice, an Ad about science.

[@MarcelHoffs]

The "DNA Nerf Gun" is an outline... not a working gun. While that is impressive on its own, the scaling is not done by the youtuber, but by actual scientists. They are presenting this guy as the guy who is going to cure cancer... a bit far-fetched and way too much credit for what he actually did.

[@zaiohellgren9266]

iif you actually watch the guy, you'll realise he is not far from. why dont you do one? would be intresting with someoe who doesnt know to try to show the world how to do something without being smart enough to take help from people who really really know.

[@TiredMoonRabbit]

I don't think that's how they present him in the video, they show him utilizing already existing tools and he never says he created the science just the idea to make it shaped like a nerf gun. The video title may be misleading but the content inside isn't as far as I can tell.

[@rinzler9775]

Does everybody here realise the COVID virus has a patent ?

[@nicholasobas7602]

It is funny that one cool idea that you create can change the world.

[@anachronism9686]

DARPA calling?

[@chrisprysok7634]

Awesome plamoids, graphene, and now this.

[@werethless12]

Mark is now associating with known scammers ishowspeed and Logan Paul. Be careful beleiving anything he says

[@collingunter3842]

speedrunning creating a prion disease that makes mad cow disease look like a common cold

[@ariseyhun2085]

What a click bait video, it literally offered nothing more than Marks original video