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CONTROLLABLE MATTER. "So it’s not too huge a leap to envision their use in some future form of configurable matter that might be used to modify, heal, or control living things." There is our raw desire, the distant aspiration. https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

BLUEPRINT IN NATURE. "These same techniques have also permitted wireless remote control of certain processes in living organisms, such as the triggering of nerve signals and the release of insulin." Our humble efforts to master the programming of living cells is a sharp contrast with those of bacteria. https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS, or the body clock, in mammals, squids and likely other creatures are also controlled by symbiotic bacteria living within. The hand on the masterswitch is not our own. https://lnkd.in/evWzdkH View in LinkedIn

REPROGRAMMING STEM CELLS has been an area that the human species has made recent advances in, late in comparison to bacteria. https://lnkd.in/ep46MGM View in LinkedIn

HIJACKED AND REPROGRAMMED. There are many examples of microbes affecting their hosts' mood and behavior, and in most cases the bacteria synthesize key neuron doctrines that control host behavior. 50% of our dopamine and 100% of our serotonin come from these symbiotic bacteria within our bodies. https://lnkd.in/es44Vig View in LinkedIn

THE HUMAN SPECIES continues to aspire to master our own destinies by re-programming nature, and controlling our own evolution, but our progress is modest compared with the bacteria, who have mastered the control of hundreds of types of insect and animal bodies via various forms of symbiosis. View in LinkedIn

MITOCHONDRIAL HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER. Some tumors grow without mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), But more slowly because they lack the respiratory and energy producing machinery that mitochondria provide. Horizontal gene transfer of mtDNA can occur between host cell mitochondria and the tumor cells lacking mitochondria to make the tumors grow faster. An old bacterial trait. https://lnkd.in/ecXxgWp View in LinkedIn

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ANCIENT CYANOBACTERIA became the powerhouses of all green plant cells as chloroplasts, which "perform essential metabolic and biosynthetic functions of global significance," including oxygenation of our planet, nitrogen fixation, and giant organic fluxes of trillions of metric tons per year. Not only stewards of all things green, but of the planetary cycles of carbon, nitrogen and other key elements. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982204000909 View in LinkedIn

WHY IS NANO DIFFERENT? Molecular interactions are radically different at different scales. At an intermediary experiential level, think of the beetles that walk on the surface of the water, the strength of the capillary rise in small tubes, the power of water vapour in thunderclouds, or the geosculpting forces of glaciers. Water properties at different scales. View in LinkedIn