10 videos to change your life #8: Hunting the next killer virus

Mar 03, 2009 00:49

I used to worry that the world would end in Pandemic. The predator-prey cycle tends to be inevitable; the great predator of the human race is virii, and they evolve faster.

The arms race we are engaged in depends on our medical technology, and for years we've been falling behind. But now you can build a DNA array machine in your garage using the guide provided, which can rapidly identify the unchanging fragments of the viruses that literally plague us, even as they evolve.

This is the kind of tech which could well save the human race.

Joe DeRisi: Hunting the next killer virus

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