Our genome is designed so our bodies break down after about a century. Synthetic biologist Dr. Senyon Choe highlights major discoveries in modern biology like stem cell therapy and CRISPER technology that may hold the answer to living longer, curing birth defects, and editing the human genome. He also discusses his work with synthetic signals which possess the potential to surpass the limitations set by nature.

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Dr. Senyon Choe moved to Northern California from Korea to study Biophysics and Medical Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Salk Institute in 1993 as the founding faculty member of its new Structural Biology Laboratory. His research group focused on understanding how cells talk to each other, and Dr. Choe made important contributions to engineer the biological messages. An extension of these works explores designing synthetic biologics to directly modulate stem cells and sick cells. His major honors include election in 1999 to the Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Most recently, he founded the joint Center for Biosciences in Korea that focuses on protein engineering and developing new stem cell therapy, facilitating drug discovery for pharmaceutical industry.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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