Hacking the World with Digital Biology
summary
Claims concrete wins and tools: a handheld MinION sequencer on the ISS, genome sequencing dropping from $2.7B/15 years to about $1,000/2 days, CRISPR cutting engineering costs ~99%, and CRISPR kits mailed to your home actually exist. Demonstrations include a chip implant that tweets, tricorder detects 43 diseases aiming at $200, cell‑free fluorescent pixels, edible algae membranes, kelp shoes and synthetic spider silk, and proposals for methanogens to biologically make rocket fuel for Mars.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 6:33Self-Assembly
- 6:55Biohacking Is Accelerating Exponentially Fast
- 7:30Handheld Dna Sequencer
- 17:44Alginate
- 19:32Mush Loom
- 21:59Ginkgo Bioworks
- 22:56Microbe Miner
- 24:44The Andromeda Strain
- 25:42Live Chip Implantation
- 27:58Star Trek versus Star Wars
- 29:02Basil Leaf Technologies
- 31:20Biomimicry
- 36:21Terraform Mars
- 40:32Martian Ice Dome
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