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good afternoon I'm a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for bits and atoms I know the name of the Center is very provocative and indeed we do a lot of things with a lot of bits including bio bits and today I want to talk to you about bio nanotechnology and this is an emerging science where we learn from how biology does things and then we steal copy emulate mimic the ways of biology first by understanding and then by co-opting and we make engineering out of it what drives us mostly it's curiosity we've recognized that to understand something just like Richard Feynman said you have to first build it if you don't know how to build something you don't understand it if we don't know how to build a photosynthetic solar cell we don't really understand photosynthesis very well if we don't know how to build by electronic nose to mimic the dogs nose let's say we don't really understand olfaction the sense of smell so that's what drives us it's basically cur