With the lengths that technology has come, it is no surprise that humans are now becoming interconnected with it. Technology has made many huge advances in science and we are able to do things we never thought of. Things such as stem-cell research, IVF, vaccines, cloning, and many other fun things. Technology has become very resourceful in furthering research but most importantly in medical research.

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Nature and technology were inevitably going to coincide sooner or later. Human beings and technology are becoming interconnected biologically with the study of humans through a scientific and computer coding scope. This can include such aspects as studying stem-cell research and the morphology DNA sequences. According to Juan Enriquez’s 2003 Ted Talk, one person’s DNA sequence is extremely similar to a line of code used to program a computer. If a computer can be programmed to behave and look a certain way, maybe humans could to. By studying a humans’ DNA sequence, it could then reconfigured to benefit said human. For example, certain DNA sequences (or a humans’ line of code) that make humans highly susceptible in developing such viruses and diseases as Ebola and cancer could be re-sequenced (programmed) so such diseases could become less prevalent. Another use for combing nature and technology involves the readmittance of extinct species into the present day such as Tasmanian tigers and the almost extinct gaurs. Biologically speaking, technology can be very valuable for the future of medical research in relation to the human genome, the ancient history Homo sapiens and even perhaps fixing evolution’s tiny errors.

We are becoming interconnected with technology biologically in different ways then we know it. If you take it look for an example a diabetic, they use technology to check their sugar levels. Field like the medical field have found ways to use technology biologically, for a diabetic there is now apps that sync from the sugar level tracker onto their phone with their daily sugar dose. When reading the article, “Data Made Flesh”, by Euegene Thacker, “Within biotech research, this is known as the field of “bioinformatics,” which is simply the application of computer technology to life science research.” Euegene Thacker continues to say that “characterizing biotech is a unique relationship between the biological and the informatic.” Then in the “A Conversation with Euegene Thacker”, he mentions that “The greatest achievement of biotechnics would not be the transformation of all life into machines, but the resurrection of life that is perfected biology, more biological than the biological itself, the redemption of biology.” I believe this is true, biotechnics have improved and rescued many lives, when one thinks about the future, there would be more advances and more options for people who are dealing with different medical issues.

How are we becoming interconnected with technology biologically?

Today, we see the use of science and technology and how they make the lives of medical professionals much more easier. Technology helps with the use of modifying living organisms and biological processes to create things such as medical products and more. Technology has expanded greatly throughout the years and is the result for many of the scientific answers we see. Technology works most with DNA in order to find answers to the many unsolvable questions one may have without the use of technology. The technology and its systems has the ability to create the unthinkable. As mentioned in Juan Enriquez’s TED Talk, he mentions a past experiment on how a conservation group tried to breed an animal that was almost extinct. They took the guars cells, coded it and took the cells and inserted it into a cows fertilized egg to create another guar. This shows the possibility of how the DNA and technology can be the answer to many new possibilities. To further explain Eugene Thacker in “An Era of Zoe and Bios?” states, “especially in certain research fields that deal with biomedia, how the process of taking a biological sample (hair, skin, blood), then converting it into DNA sequence data (that is, light pulses), then collating that data into a file, then uploading that file to a genome database…” This further explains the steps on what is done and how its done using specific samples of minor things such as hair and blood. We have become very interconnected with technology biologically and with time we will get closer.

Through the use of cells and their DNA, modern medicine has also advanced with biotechnology. Research has suggested that stem cells have the ability to regenerate damaged tissues and cells within the body despite the question: is using stem cells ethical. Our DNA interconnects us with medical research and technology.

Our DNA is the fundamental part of who we are, where we’ve been, and who we were for the past billions of years. The idea of mapping who we are and who we were has become widely popular with DNA tests such as 23andMe. 23andMe collects your DNA through a saliva sample then analyzes your genetic makeup and helps determine which medical ailments you may be predisposed to. Numerous amount of kits are available, each one adding more information for a decent fee- just as Eugene Thacker stated, “ One thing is that a given, relatively unquestioned notion of ‘life itself’ is regarded as being incorporated into the technological domain, either for economic profit…” Of course, the lab receives your DNA sample, your DNA will be put into a database among millions of other people, also interested in their genetic makeup. 

When Thacker stated, “ Yes, but I wonder. I think about cloned mammals (the failures as well as successes), human ears grown on the back of a mouse…”  I couldn’t help but think back to the birth of Dolly the Sheep. On July 5, 1996, history was made when Dolly the Sheep, the first successfully cloned mammal was introduced to the public. Dolly’s birth was a milestone for biotechnology, showing that adult mammals could be cloned despite the first failed 277 attempts. Dolly’s DNA originated from a mammary gland taken from an adult sheep and after a number of complicated experiments, the embryo had been implanted into an adult sheep and within 147 days later, Dolly was born. Since Dolly’s birth, science has advanced and so has biotechnology with science focusing on cloning other animals since then. Although the sequence that was used to create Dolly and other animals would not be efficient for human use, biotechnology has found many more uses for DNA that would benefit humans more than cloning would. 

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