For all the health risks we are currently facing, it’s also possible to imagine a future where our improved understanding of viruses will unlock exponential advances in technology using biologically-driven nanoengineering buff.ly/2TaZOzq
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The e. coli bacteria is in use for the same kind of thing. Neupogen (blood/chemo drug) is made by injecting a healthy cell into e.coli cell and proliferating them. Fine for labs but in life antibodies from bacterial infections die. Viral antibodies love you forever.
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It’s a fascinating field & makes me wonder what more we wonder if we explored more broad cross-discipline connections in science
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After all, I’m still convinced what made the web thrive was how it attracted in those early days a whole bunch of us people from different worlds who hacked together something new & resilient
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Replying to @saila
And also insecure, not interoperable, monocultural and profit-oriented. Let's not rush so fast into Virus tech. Maybe cure the common cold first?

Mar 11, 2020 · 2:01 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
Yes, true - start small and share learning widely
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And pacing! Especially with medical. I cannot count the times I've heard "fix that bug later" from every single desktop browser vendor I worked with (all but Brave) which we know from hard losses usually never happens.
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