Digital JPEGs selling for millions of dollars; machines that turn thin air into food; people buying a McDonald’s with Bitcoin; an AI program that can replace illustrators; psychedelics being prescribed by doctors. What do these ideas have in common? They were all completely crazy notions until, one day, they were part of our world.
DNA is an alien programming language – that can be learned
That's the mind blowing idea of Stef van Grieken, the founder of Cradle, which is unlocking the keys to human biology.
What does he mean here?
Well, DNA was not designed like most languages, but it evolved, and so it's hard to understand and harder to engineer.
But what if, similarly to how we have learned natural language, we might be able to engineer organic chemistry?
That's exciting because most of the things around us are biology, including ourselves.
So if we could tweak that or engineer that then that could open up a really exciting future. Imagine the possibilities if we could engineer life itself to solve global challenges, from health to sustainability!
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