Juan Enriquez: The age of genetic wonder
胡安·恩里克斯: 基因奇迹的时代
Juan Enriquez thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and other life sciences will bring in business, technology, politics and society. Full bio
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technologies tend to be overestimated
大多数新技术刚出现时,
in the long term
of miracle and wonder.
song by Paul Simon?
那首美妙的歌吗?
miraculous back then?
to get interrupted by operators
你想要挂断吗?”
Do you want to hang up?"
都可以随时连线。
all over the world.
originally in their impact.
going to ruin all religion.
attention to telescopes.
花什么心思研究望远镜。
10 years ago, as you just heard,
10多年前发射的望远镜,
fly it to the moon,
在月球上亮了起来。
on that Volkswagen light up on the moon.
that allowed you to see
floating around distant suns.
was a sun a billion light years away,
that came in front of it.
an exoplanet is like.
that are now being launched
a single candle lit on the moon.
separately at that distance.
of resolution that you need
that little speck of dust
a blue-green signature,
is common in the universe.
看到蓝绿色的标志,
signature on a distant planet,
有光合作用的行星的
the only other planet with photosynthesis
we were alone in the universe:
of whatever continent.
to be able to image most of the universe.
in these little bits and pieces.
and we hear about this technology,
is that life turns out to be code.
important concept because it means,
是个非常重要的概念,
就像你写一个句子一样,
as you can write a sentence
as you can copy a sentence,
as you can edit a sentence,
as you can print a sentence,
to do that with life.
to learn how to read this language.
如何阅读这门语言。
that is used by this orange.
like a computer does.
AGC: 开花。
AGC: make me some flowers.
on a word processor,
用英文编写句子,
from this word to that word.
或其他你听过的技术,
or something else that you've heard of,
sitting next to you today.
is it was really expensive to begin with.
50 percent faster than Moore's law.
摩尔定律快50%。
was announced yesterday by Veritas.
200美元全基因组计划。
它无关紧要,然后它变得紧要了。
it doesn't matter, and then it does.
的地图预览模式。
the map view of this stuff.
but instead of using a telescope,
不过用的不是望远镜,
It's recessive and mutant.
是隐性和突变的。
and then you zoom in to 850,
识别出越来越多的基因。
more and more genes as you zoom in.
who's got leukemia,
what kind of leukemia do they have,
得了哪种白血病,
to what place.
to the Google street view level.
if you have colorectal cancer
on the letter-by-letter resolution.
is we're gathering information
enormous amounts of information.
databases on the planet
存储它的速度还快。
than we can build computers to store it.
maps with this stuff.
构建一些不可思议的地图。
and why one plague is bubonic
这种鼠疫是淋巴腺鼠疫,
is a different kind of plague
is a different kind of plague?
as you go to the bottom of this,
tuberculosis and various kinds of plagues,
with this stuff,
a very specific kind of cholera
which country it came from,
from that African country to Haiti.
从哪个非洲国家带到海地。
ever done by human beings.
all the genetic information they have
on a single page
how did it diversify, how did it branch,
它是如何多样,如何多分支,
of life on Earth,
updated and completed.
过去的生物学是被动的。
the old biology used to be reactive.
that had microscopes,
and they were out observing animals.
you make stuff.
to do things like this.
excited by this picture.
and 40 million dollars
out of a cell --
是把整个基因编码从细胞中提取出来,
the full gene code out of a cell --
execute that code
synthetic life form.
第一个合成生命形式。
to change the world.
to change the world.
a new industrial revolution.
一场新的工业革命。
and Germany and Britain
看到的机器改变了世界一样,
like the one you see in this lobby,
is changing the world,
正在使用新的仪器
改变世界一样——
and our concept of the universe --
are also going to change the world
program your computer chip,
can produce photographs,
can produce spreadsheets.
flying through there.
by your bedside,
cell phones in the morning.
at a very large scale.
is you can start producing
就这个问题展开合作。
for agricultural lands.
来生产油或蛋白质,
to make oils or to make proteins,
the productivity per hectare.
or you can make all the world's vaccines
储存信息,或者制造世界上
that's held at CERN in those three vats.
信息存储在这三个容器中。
information storage device.
of theoretical biology.
of the most conservative places on earth.
to the way they taught anatomy
not good at is creating new departments,
based on informatics, data, knowledge
创建了一个基于信息学、数据
what's beginning to happen is
the steps of physics,
theoretical biology.
so much data about people:
you've got their viromes,
is this is coming to the consumer.
这一切正在走向消费者。
companies like 23andMe,
这样的公司的诞生,
are going to be giving you
to compare stuff across time,
very large databases.
不可预期的方式影响
a series of other businesses
you really don't want the consumer
你真的不希望消费者
into the bathroom to pee on.
out of a magazine and you pee on it,
尿在上面的时候,
a discount on your crib.
at Synthetic Genomics,
我们现在开始生产
of these machines this year.
This is printing biology.
这是打印生物学。
over a longer time period.
发生在你身上的。
to redesign species.
我们重新设计了鲜花。
We're redesigning flowers.
brings up the interesting question:
"Oh no, we never want to redesign humans."
我们从来不想重新设计人类。”
has a Huntington's gene
有亨廷顿氏舞蹈症基因
a cystic fibrosis gene,
囊性纤维化基因,
你不只是想重新设计自己,
to redesign yourself,
你的孩子和他们的孩子。
and their children.
and they're going to happen in real time.
它们当下正在发生着。
at the National Academies today
一场辩论是关于
a gene drive into mosquitoes
携带疟疾的蚊子。
all the malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
in an extreme way, don't do it."
影响环境,不要这样做。”
that's killing millions of people yearly.
拯救我们国家的孩子们?”
that I can't save the kids in my country?"
或在佛罗里达州南部
let this loose in Brazil
that it's in other places?
to this graduate students
any modern chemicals or instruments.
现代化学品或仪器。
three billion years ago.
You can't use this. You can't use that."
你不能用那个。”
about three weeks ago.
soap bubbles that are made out of lipids.
be absorbed by the cell
through the digital age --
the age of the genome
合成生物学时代——
and synthetic biology --
into the age of the brain.
we can rebuild most of our body parts,
我们大部分身体器官的时期,
它会重新生长一样。
or burn your skin, it regrows.
how to regrow our tracheas
implanted in humans.
32 different organs.
and the rest is just packaging.
120, 130, 140 years
an apocryphal quote from Einstein.
说过的话来结束这次演讲。
everything is a miracle,
nothing is a miracle.]
you can focus on the scary,
你可以关注可怕的事情,
a lot of scary out there.
to focus on that, or maybe 20 percent,
奇迹,千变万化的时代。
of miracle and wonder.
We're lucky to see this stuff.
有幸看到这些东西。
with folks like the folks
all the stuff in this room.
for all you do.
感谢你们所做的一切。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Juan Enriquez - FuturistJuan Enriquez thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and other life sciences will bring in business, technology, politics and society.
Why you should listen
A broad thinker who studies the intersections of these fields, Enriquez has a talent for bridging disciplines to build a coherent look ahead. He is the managing director of Excel Venture Management, a life sciences VC firm. He recently published (with Steve Gullans) Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Shaping Life on Earth. The book describes a world where humans increasingly shape their environment, themselves and other species.
Enriquez is a member of the board of Synthetic Genomics, which recently introduced the smallest synthetic living cell. Called “JCVI-syn 3.0,” it has 473 genes (about half the previous smallest cell). The organism would die if one of the genes is removed. In other words, this is the minimum genetic instruction set for a living organism.
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