How many masks do you need?

And this is the biggest biomedical enterprise research in the world.

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There's a problem with a traditional scientific paper.

I signed up for something called the Personal Genome Project.

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But love isn't always a happy experience.

(Laughter)

He's at my facility.

The fellow in the door, Andre Filitrault who's the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Earthquake Engineering Research at the University of Buffalo was examining it to see if it was safe to recover the archives.

Audience Where's your lab?

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Merrick Institute.

Well, we, Tess Morgan would call them the Technological Engineering Scientific Studies or T.E.S.S. for short.

Now, that's not true anymore.

But what tends to happen here, and not just here.

So I typed up a budget, a materials list, a timeline, and a procedure, and I emailed it to 200 different professors at Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health essentially, anyone that had anything to do with pancreatic cancer.

At the Curie Institute in Paris.

From the Institute of Polar Research Sent over as the ice scientist

And I was fascinated, I wanted to know how do these guys do it.

And in biology, the numbers are even better.

(Laughter)

I mean, why not?

We need to discover what those differences are.

And here's one example that's really exciting.

Goddard Space Flight Center,

And they are doing it massively.

Now to the ridicule of my colleagues,

And in one of our labs,

Oh. What would you call these laboratories?

Is there any evidence that flies do this?

Oh my gosh! This is incredible. I can't believe this has happened.

I have a scale model here.

These are hopping microbot swarms.

Just a few quick before and after shots.

(Laughter)

One day, when I was a student the Director of our institute called me

I learned to love landscapes.

to the Reeves Electronics Lab.

Do you realise that's the end of you as a scientist?

Sandia Laboratories, huh?

Well, back when Elliott and I were in grad school, we came up with the name.

So let's meet Bobby Kasthuri, who works in the laboratory of Jeff Lichtman at Harvard University.

Which one is likely to fit the bill?