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

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.

It’s a fascinating field & makes me wonder what more we wonder if we explored more broad cross-discipline connections in science

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

And also insecure, not interoperable, monocultural and profit-oriented. Let's not rush so fast into Virus tech. Maybe cure the common cold first?

Yes, true - start small and share learning widely