Could synthetic biology alleviate poverty? │ Dr. George Church
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"I have speculated that essentially everything that we can currently manufacture without biology, we will be able to manufacture with biology." This quote by Dr. George Church conveys the truly revolutionary things we might achieve with synthetic biology, the process of gene editing and gene writing to redesign existing biological systems and engineer new ones. The idea of a smart phone that is able to replicate itself sounds like science fiction in our current age, but technologies like this could be on the horizon with advanced genetic technologies. Such advances could drastically improve medical care and agriculture, alleviating poverty, particularly in developing nations. In this clip, Dr. George Church discusses how gene editing could uniquely improve human life in the future.
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