Synthetic biology - what should we be vibrating about?: Drew Endy at TEDxStanford
Drew Endy is an associate professor of bioengineering and member of the faculty of the Center for International Security and Cooperation. Drew Endy helped ...
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Translator: wanqing jiang Reviewer: Denise RQ In 1972, the musical group Funkadelic released one of my favorite songs, "Biological Speculation". If you don't know the song, I want to share it at the beginning of the course with you. We're just biological speculation, sitting here, vibrating. And we don't know what were vibrating about. Also in 1972 and 1973, researchers at Stanford and at San Francisco invented what became known as Genetic Engineering, the ability to take natural pieces of DNA and recombine them to make new chimeric molecules. Oh, that's interesting. How would we, members of the clan of opposable thumbs who like to do things apply this new tool if we don't know what we're vibrating about? Forty years have gone by, roughly, it's b...
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Translator: wanqing jiang Reviewer: Denise RQ In 1972, the musical group Funkadelic released one of my favorite songs, "Biological Speculation". If you don't know the song, I want to share it at the beginning of the course with you. We're just biological speculation, sitting here, vibrating. And we don't know what were vibrating about. Also in 1972 and 1973, researchers at Stanford and at San Francisco invented what became known as Genetic Engineering, the ability to take natural pieces of DNA and recombine them to make new chimeric molecules. Oh, that's interesting. How would we, members of the clan of opposable thumbs who like to do things apply this new tool if we don't know what we're vibrating about? Forty years have gone by, roughly, it's b...
