YOU are the final TECH

The final TECH is the engineering or programming of life. Imagine being able to change your genetics like how you change the operating system on your computer or update an application on your android phone. This could happen in real time using a genetic compiler that changes your human biology in an instant. This invention will take all the foundations of nanomedicine and manipulate biological machines inside your cells, at the DNA level, to create a new YOU. You can change your IQ, Eye Color, Height, Weight, Skin Color and Texture, Hair Color and Texture, and/or your health by programming your biology. Instead of programming computers which we do now in the software revolution, we will be programming our biology in the living software revolution. The Medical Laboratory has a major role in the creation of this final TECH which is YOU. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics is the fastest growing discipline of Laboratory Medicine and has the potential to create the most advanced form of technology that the human race will ever experience.

To participate in the living software revolution, one needs a deep understand of the principles related to gene-editing and CRISPR. YOU are the final TECH.

Biology is Nanotechnology

Biological systems operate using nanotechnology. The cell (plant and/or animal) is inherently nano in scale hence nanotechnology has to merge with biology. In order for molecular engineering of nanomachines to be possible then we have to view nanotechnology as biology. Smaller than nano is pico and femto-technology which are far below atoms and other elements of nature that are visible to the naked eye. In cellular biology, ATP synthesis and DNA replication are essential tasks of life which are done by nanites or molecular machines. Molecular machines can be divided into two broad categories: artificial and biological. Artificial molecular machines are molecules that are artificially designed and synthesized while biological molecular machines are molecules that are found in nature and have evolved after abiogenesis on Earth. The most complex macromolecular machines are found within cells, often in the form of multi-protein complexes. Examples of biological molecular machines include motor proteins such as myosin (for muscle contraction), kinesin (moves cargo inside cells away from the nucleus), dynein (moves cargo inside cells towards the nucleus). Examples of artificial molecular machines include molecular sensors, molecular switch, molecular shuttle, molecular propeller.

Molecular machines will play an integral role in genetic engineering and as a result will impact medical laboratories. This is a new form of bioengineering which could lead to the creation of synthetic plants and animals.

Bio- Hax and Vax

Many conspiracies surrounding Bio-Hax and Vax have led a lot of people to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine. Theorists are spreading propaganda that the vaccine will edit DNA or implant microchips inside persons. Biohacking is becoming more mainstream now since the invention of CRISPR. Genetic engineers are now contemplating the creation of superhumans by engineering their biology. Some even believe that COVID-19 is the birth of the era of biological programming. Programming biology changes man into a machine since like a computer that can be programmed with Python, engineers can program the cells of man with DNA (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine). Bio-Hax are possible through the engineering of a synthetic virus which infects a cell via a pandemic (involuntarily) or by simply creating a vaccine with the RNA of the synthetic virus then inject it into the cell (voluntarily). An enzyme will cut the DNA like a scissors then insert any new gene into the person's DNA. This technology will be greater and more impactful than the software revolution. It is actually another form of software revolution called the living software revolution.

Engineering life is the hardest task that any engineer will ever have. This is the final invention of the human race and Medical Laboratories will play a key role in making this engineering feat possible.

Biological and Software programming

Software programming is done by encoding zeroes and ones on microchips while biological programming is done by encoding the DNA of cells using A, G, T and C which are the building blocks of DNA. The next major technological revolution will not include computer software but will be biological software. DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. Our ability to engineer biology will solve major world problems such as the spread of disease, world hunger and climate change. The use of biological computation has the potential to transform medicine, agriculture and energy. Biological apps are being created to put the gene for a perfume scent from a plant into yeast. Hence, the perfume is produced from fermentation of the yeast instead of using plant extracts. Engineering biology will speed up the development of synthetic solutions to old problems. Some problems include manufacturing biofuels, engineering solar cells similar to how plants carry out photosynthesis or engineering viruses to act as biopesticides.

Medical Laboratories will be using genetic compilers in the future that make biological programming as safe and robust as traditional software programming.

Bio-plastics, fuels or fertilizers

Which industry will biology have the greatest impact? Life is the ultimate technology and engineering life can transform trillion dollar industries. Bioplastics are plastic materials produced from renewable biomass sources. These renewable biomass sources include vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, straw, woodchips, sawdust, recycled food waste, etc. On the other hand, fossil-fuel plastics are derived from petroleum or natural gas. Biofuel is fuel that is produced through biomass rather than through oil. Biomass such as wood can be used as fuel and involve carbon fixation, such as those which occur in plants via photosynthesis. Biofertilizers are living microbes which, when applied to seeds or soil, colonize the rhizosphere or interior of the plant and promotes growth by increasing the availability of nutrients to the host plant. This is how biotechnology can replace trillion dollar industries.

Once bioengineers can perform DNA programming on these living organisms then the possibilities are endless. Life is certainly the ultimate technology in this universe.

Biology is the future of tech

The most advanced technology that exist in this universe is life. The study of life and the ability to engineer life will be the final invention of the human race. Currently there are advancements in synthetic biology which allow humans to program DNA like programming a computer. Bill Gates once said that DNA is a software, just more advanced than any software ever created. Elon Musk also said that DNA is firmware, which makes curing diseases like cancer a software problem. The ability to engineer life is at the forefront of most research done by synthetic biologists and bioengineers. 

The Medical Laboratory has played a key role in the advancement of genetics over years. Gene-editing and molecular diagnostics are the foundations for engineering life. Engineering biology will replace engineering computer hardware and software as the future of tech.