Paul Rothemund: Casting spells with DNA

Hacking matter!! wow this is some amazing stuff!! Just imagine the possibilities... the analogy to spells is correct because if this takes off -like I think it will- then you people who don't understand this are going to be left thinking "it is magic!" and the technology gap is going to be HUGE.. if some of you are scare and confuse now wait another 10 years... amazing..

its so disgusting to see orthodox scientists pretending not to follow whats being presented just because the "spell" word was mentioned. i'm starting to believe the idea that science is a religious order.

philosophic

Yeah, probably M13 or M1 bacteriophage. They are easy to grow on bacterial cultures (petri dishes or test tubes) and they are short and simple. M13 is kind of the lab rat of the viral world. We use it a lot for DNA sequences... kind a legacy from the early days. I think it might have been the first virus to be sequenced.

einstein said "highly developed spirits have always encountered great resistance from mediocre minds". This guy is one of those spirits...you people calling him scary/nerd/weird are mediocre and will continue to be so until you sack up, let go of those fragile little egos, and realize that calling people names is for second graders. Paul...you and your work are amazing, thank you. Don't ever get sidetracked by insignificant jeerers with nothing better to do with themselves.

if you dont know what hes talking about ur the idiot. "insecure thinking" not even close lol

You're perfectly right, the TED talks are about like a beauty contest. Their objective is more shock value than anything else, that immediate attention grabber seems to take precedence over everything else. Even on youtube, much better more in depth talks are out there.

But they do something that common researchers often outright ignore. Explaining stuff simply and connecting to people.

the end of man cometh!!!

the end of man cometh here comes woman hear her roar.

just nervous...