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Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100 by pazimzadeh on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:01PM (#12553318)
How about using commensal bacteria to design an "external immune system" which can respond to any pathogen we program it too. Bacteria coat basically all cavities in your body and could scan incoming threats and respond to them before the human immune system is every involved.
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Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100 by tominous on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:04PM (#12553330)
Sure, as long I get to be the programmer and deploy the updates. :) You can call me God-Emperor Tominous.
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Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100 by pazimzadeh on Thursday September 22, 2016 @12:10AM (#12554286)
That doesn't seem too improbable actually. I think that IDE's for designing genetic circuitry aren't far away.
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