Could Genetic Engineering Cure Cancer? With Wilson Wong
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
According to synthetic biologist, Wilson Wong, it’s not only a very real possibility, but it could be the future of immunotherapy.
Here’s a few things you’ll hear about in this episode:
* The technique doctors are now using to hack T-cells and achieve 90% remission in Lymphoma patients
* How researchers have successfully turned cells into computer circuits and how that could impact the future of medicine.
* The magical enzyme that makes computing with cells possible
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:08.0 | Future Technologies Boys To Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here, means these technologies are now here and |
| 0:16.7 | starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:26.1 | So this is Richard Take-ups with Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | Today I'm talking to Wilson Wong and we're going to be talking about programming cells as if they were circuits. |
| 0:36.1 | So Wilson, how you doing? |
| 0:37.1 | Doing well. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:39.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:40.1 | Sure. |
| 0:41.1 | Can you give folks just a little sketch of your background and the project you're working on right now? |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, well certainly. |
| 0:48.0 | So we are working on, well, I'm a chemical engineer by training and I've been you know in this field called |
| 0:56.4 | synthetic biology since when I was in graduate school so 2001 so the idea is to in the |
| 1:05.0 | of graduate school, so 2001. So the idea is to be able to use genetic engineering |
| 1:08.0 | to change, you know, self behavior, and preferably in a way that you want the self to behave and so |
| 1:20.0 | this is the concept and I'm specifically interested in two types of synthetic biology. |
| 1:29.2 | One is this concept of genetic circuit design. What that means is that you, yeah, you use genetics to create sort of like a little device all with DNA that can perform basic |
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