tailieunhanh - Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance Episode 2 Part 7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'converging technologies for improving human performance episode 2 part 7', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance pre-publication on-line version 307 A totally different field that has received some attention lately but probably not enough is the area of edible Synthetically coding for receptor sites on the protein coats of pathogens and then inserting these DNA strings into a plant genome has produced interesting early results. Workers at the Boyce-Thompson Plant Research Institute at Cornell in collaboration with researchers at Baylor University have found immune response in human subjects generated by eating the potatoes that result from such genetic manipulation. Since we have experienced such difficulties in producing a vaccine in large quantity just for anthrax a totally different path might be in order. Side effects should be minimized by this technique. One could even imagine eventually a cocktail a V-8 of tomatoes bananas or some other food bred to protect against a variety of pathogens. The doses could be easily distributed and delivered and in remote or poor areas would need a minimum of refrigeration and require no needles. Possibly none of this will work out maybe the required doses of food will just be too great or will have to be re-administered too often to be practical. But it seems to me that this is interesting enough to investigate with more vigor than is currently the case. Other Areas Time and space severely limit what can be described in an extremely short paper. I will just touch upon other areas that appear to me to be important in combating terrorism. All would involve nanotechnologies and information sciences falling under the NBIC rubric since they would probably require advances in computing power to be most effective. One can try to apply information technology and social sciences in an effort to discern patterns of behaviors in nasty organizations. If one were to focus on correlating a large volume of diverse data that include the characteristics motivations and actions could one