Thanks for your comment. I'd love to make more, though they are very time consuming. Starting from scratch with no experience, I think we spent over 300 hours on this one.

We recorded the video with a Canon DLSR and used After Effects and an old version of Final Cut Pro for editing. The audio was captured with a condenser mic and Mackie Onyx Blackjack USB adapter. That was in 2010... today I would probably just get something like a Blue Yeti.

+Sam Zhang I studied CS and biochem as an undergrad and then biophysics for PhD. I also worked in labs to directly gain research experience.

So is it necessary to get an undergrad in nanotechnology? Then get a graduate in bio-systems?

For undergrad I'd recommend traditional quantitative majors such as CS, biology, or physics, and then get hands-on research experience during the summers. Apply to grad schools once you've published at least once and somewhat know what you're getting into...

immortality is not possible

+Chon Pak Theoretically a lot of that is possible. The problem though is that we really have very minimal knowledge of DNA. Yes we know that there are certain codons that code for certain amino acids to make certain proteins, but there's a lot more to DNA and cells that we don't understand or can't replicate yet. And we always have to be careful changing a system that we don't understand (in fact, the more you understand biological systems, the more you realize how enhanced we really are, and changing that usually only makes things worse), but I wouldn't say that things like giving immortality are necessarily impossible. Maybe they're far-fetched, but as we learn more about biological systems, we will find out just what we can make with them.

if you have got the answer to this, would you mind sharing it?

Oh I never ended up taking that class, sorry. Actually went down the music/audio route instead. I'm not sure about bionanotechnology classes still, but that college does have nano technology. Sometimes I do wonder if I should have went for it. I'm still a big supporter of it.

@@Aulaein actually I needed help with pursuing that but I do not know what i have to select to pursue it

+Lynda Murray Bioinformatics. One can use a sequencer to sequence a DNA sample and change the way we can look at this biological sample, going from a real DNA to a file in a computer which is like a text file which we can now manipulate and make such nano robots

Biotech is more general, and already an established industry. Bionano is what we're calling our niche sub-specialty focused on engineering with molecular building blocks. Once bionano commercial applications become available, they will probably be considered under the biotech umbrella.

Amen....

As long as people are willing to pay for medicine, the pharmaceutical industry will persist. Improved drugs based on bionanotechnology will likely supplant existing products, as well as create entirely new options for patients with diseases that currently have no good treatments available. There are many related ethical questions to consider along the way, such as how to ensure these treatments will be affordable and made widely accessible to patients.

ok, wink wink