Molecular Programming with Dr Dominic Scalise

As I was crawling through various research trying to understand more about the field of molecular computing, I stumbled on several exciting papers by Dr Dominic Scalise. I was curious to learn more, so I invited him to do an interview about his work and his thoughts on the field. Our conversation spans so many different topics in just under an hour, from molecular machine learning to synthetically growing houses. Since the topics can be somewhat confusing to novices (including myself), I went ahead and added explainer assets throughout the video to keep things interesting and retainable. Enjoy! Find and share 1 biotechnology learning resource you’ve found particularly useful on social media with the hashtag #moleculardharma. Let’s make this a topic anyone can start learning about! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/312pLUb FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/2OqOhx1 TWITTER: https://bit.ly/2OHYLbB WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/2OoVPQF Dominic's work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HdJtxJkAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-scalise/ Helpful links that he forwarded to me in an email below: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video and the following two papers explain the basic mechanisms for how purely DNA circuits operate. I typically have college students start by reading these papers before mentoring them in the wetlab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cEkIwMYypo http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/DNA_logic_circuits2006.pdf http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/seesaw_digital_circuits2011.pdf This video shows an animation of the DNA origami technique for building nano structures out of DNA. There is a huge variety of structures that have been built with similar techniques. If you just google image search "DNA origami" or "DNA nanostructures" you will get a sense of how many different things have been con