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April 2025

TEDxCU: How AI is Engineering Life Itself, One Nucleotide at a Time

Synthetic Biology Artificial Intelligence DNA Design Science Communication TEDx
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Speaker: Carolus Vitalis

Event Date: April 5, 2025

Location: Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado Boulder

Summary:
What if we could program life the way we program computers? In this TEDxCU talk, Carolus Vitalis explores how generative AI is already designing novel DNA blueprints that can help heal disease, address climate change, and reshape ecosystems. Drawing from personal and scientific experience, he presents how this new biological revolution is reimagining the future of life itself.

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