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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Larry Greenmire. Got a minute?

You might expect the U.S. Secretary of Defense to say the biggest innovations he's following involve

weapons systems or robotics or artificial intelligence. But current Defense Secretary Ashton

Carter is looking at biology, especially in regard to how biological

science can inform the development of technology to save the lives of military personnel.

I actually believe that in the era to come that will be the biosciences, that it will be most

consequential for humankind. And like all technologies, they'll be used for good or for ill and our job is to make sure that the uses for good outweigh the uses for ill.

But I think if you had to just pick a frontier, you'd have to call that one else the one that we will look back on.

Future secretaries and defense future generations

who say, were we part of that awakening in that revolution?

And I hope the answer to that yes.

Carter spoke at a recent meeting called the Wait What Conference in St. Louis that was

sponsored by DARPA,

the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Darpa hopes its life sciences research can improve the

health and readiness of combat forces, advance battlefield medicine, and help understand and treat

traumatic brain injury. Such work would have obvious civilian application as well, as would research into

infectious disease. The Defense Department showed just how serious it is about bioscience last

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