In 2010, on creating the world’s first synthetic life form Dr. Venter said, “the achievement heralds the dawn of a new era in which new life is made to benefit humanity, starting with bacteria that churn out biofuels, soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and even manufacture vaccines.” Dr. Venter’s technology paved the way for designer organisms to be built rather than be allowed to naturally evolve, and he owns the patent.
In 2018, Dr. Charles Morgan gave a presentation to cadets at West Point, U.S. Military Academy. He covered a range of topics including psychology, neurobiology, and the science of humans at war. It is a mind-blowing presentation and well worth the one-hour watch, follow this LINK.
Starting at around 28 mins, Dr. Morgan discusses work being done by Dr. Venter stating, “[his] work is, in my view, the equivalent of the development of nuclear weapons when you realise that he created life in a cell back in 2010.”
Dr. Venter’s technology paired with CRISPR enables “you to engineer anything you like”, for example: designer medicine and therapy, or, a unique thing that would only kill one person in the world. This is because “you put in a specific gene slicing, you program what you like, you put it in the cell and it can reproduce and make as much as you like.” Dr. Morgan continues, “You can create a designer receptor. You can create a cell, you can put it somewhere in the body, and you can remotely activate it when the brain is exposed to the right signal.” Using this technology memories have been transferred from one fruit fly to another by signaling, through a light stimulus, into the retina.
DNA can hold a staggering amount of information. Between CRISPR, the storage capacity of DNA and programming cells the new way to hide information will be in DNA. Starting at around 36 mins, Dr Morgan shows a GIF file that had been “hidden” in the DNA of bacteria. When the bacteria reproduced, the offspring carried the DNA containing the GIF and produced the encoded movie. This idea was being developed further. “The Chinese are fairly convinced that DNA encryption encoding would be one tremendous challenge even for quantum computing. So, this is where the race is right now. Trying to merge quantum computing with what you call a wet hard drive, with DNA,” Dr. Morgan said....<<<Read More>>>...
