I simply don't understand WHY this presentation have only 1363 views. Yes "The man is a giant."

I only comment on KZfaq few times since using internet, and I'm in my mid-20s. But I have to comment now to point out that this got to be the most interesting and most important TEDTalk video, ever.

This is quite amazing! Ideas focussed on a problem using new technologies being wrapped up with a surprising business model. Thank you mr Andrew Hessel :D

This video sparked a fire in me

I am legend, here we come.

This stuff is mind blowing !!!!!

Amazing ideas! Really thoughtful solution to the current problems of cancer drug.

Really Awesome, i see the future disease diagnosing in your speech.

Great and smart thinking.

This talk is amazing and so eye-opening for me. I Can't believe I'm only watching this now! Definitely needs more views.

This technology could be used to cure other diseases such as ebola or AIDS. Amazing work!

this is beautiful idea, I wonder how they are doing now.

i also had this idea a few years ago (like, a decade after craig venter et al, of course, lol) but he is not really mentioning the missing link; the difficult bit that makes this technology hard to pull off: knowing what to print. he makes it sound easy, but science/genetics has a long way to go and he downplays this. there are similar strategies involving synthetic antibodies, but in both cases, antibodies, viruses or otherwise, we're not quite at the stage of being able to manipulate DNA and the host cell used for protein expression well enough to perfectly code for the necessary protein shape. there are so many complexities involving protein folding, post-translational modification, getting the chosen particle into a state that can be harvested correctly. not everything can be made in bacteria, let alone a single strain of E coli. Of course the speaker knows this, is aware of the problems and presumably expects other technologies to come in and solve some of these problems as time goes by and that as those barriers fall, this dream (and his company) will take steps towards becoming reality, but we have a long way to go to cover all he is promising and he does not address this at all coz it's a TED talk and it's supposed to sound like the greatest thing ever. i would argue that bacteriophage therapies will come first as an alternative to antibiotics, then proper availability of oncolytic viruses may come later, followed by antibodies and eventually the imagination is the limit (both for better and for worse).

The greatest fear I have with this is ambition overtaking caution when developing new treatments. The idea for the wifi-capable DNA synthesizer in a pen is a perfect example, just imagine malware being put out there for the things & sick people inject themselves with them. Nothing is a magical pill and Murphy's Law should always be considered when coming up with new designs. You can't just "Go back to the design table" as Hessel called it if there are several bodies left in your wake.

WOW... Why is this the First time I'm hearing about this work and this subject.... I am getting involved

One of the best Tedx talk ever. But i had a question, that could this technology be used to create ebola or other deadly viruses, like vsauce said?

Wow, seriously. Wow.

brilliant!

Very interesting.Thanks

I came here interested in computer viruses and still found this to be interesting

Fantastic 👍

I hope there's been some progress made on it .And we see a day in our life time to see this as new normal

This is EXACTLY the technology they use in Star Trek... Go figure

This an Idea that worth spreading

WOW!

so where is the site i can start doing this from?

Corona virus 2020.

Maybe its me, but I see Steve Jobs silhouette at 17:12

Important skill to have. Learn how to make it.

This is pretty cool. How do you contact Andrew Hessel ?

I wonder if the graph is inflation-adjusted

Isn't this the plot from I am Legend?

Yo pass me a Corona

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It's not so easy as he explained.