Let's say, hypothetically, if a government wanted to make every...

Let's say, hypothetically, if a government wanted to make every citizen trackable through technological means, it would be useful to 'chip' each member of society somehow and give them all a unique ID to track with. Such a scenario would probably make people feel a bit uncomfortable, so, you'd need some kind of trojan horse to make them comply. You'd use some kind of narrative to introduce the reason that would make them all feel inclined to insert the chip, because it's the right thing to do. Then, just like that, you've got everyone chipped.

This is all hypothetical, by the way, but I'm saying we could use this kind of technology on animals. If you're a farmer with a lot of sheep, it would make it easier to control them all by using such technology. You could see where they all are just by looking on your computer screen. You could gain all kinds of data that would make them easier to manage and control. This would be beneficial because you'd understand their behaviour better and then be able to predict future movement patterns. Now, how could you possibly pull the wool over their eyes? No pun intended.

Data is the new oil, so they say. Well, it's all happening quite quickly. It's hard to keep up with. The main thing is that you all protect your neighbours by getting vaccinated, so that we can all get on with things. Then, by the time we are all protected against this deadly virus, we can openly celebrate the foresight we all had here regarding the wonders of this technology. Pay attention to developments around the world to see how this technology may be useful.

Certain findings in quantum mechanics in recent years have led to the mother of all paradigm shifts in terms of human cognition. It's impossible to explain, basically, but if you study the work of Hugh Everett and Richard Feynman, watch the movie Tenet, drink a large glass of whiskey, learn about Nikola Tesla, watch an episode of Black Mirror, you might come close to getting it. If you're over the age of 55, you can buy melatonin over the counter at a chemist. I'd do that too. You'll have vivid dreams. They could be helpful too. Pay attention to animals too. Well, I'm sure you all just want to know "when will the share price be high enough for me to buy better toilet paper (when it's back in stock)??" but the answer is between the lines, my dear friend.

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2022/01/10/chemists-use-dna-to-build-the-world-s-tiniest-antenna/

Researchers at Université de Montréal have created a nanoantenna to monitor the motions of proteins.

Reported this week in Nature Methods, the device is a new method to monitor the structural change of proteins over time – and may go a long way to helping scientists better understand natural and human-designed nanotechnologies.

"The results are so exciting that we are currently working on setting up a start-up company to commercialize and make this nanoantenna available to most researchers and the pharmaceutical industry," said UdeM chemistry professor Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, the study’s senior author.

Works like a two-way radio

Over 40 years ago, researchers invented the first DNA synthesizer to create molecules that encode genetic information. "In recent years, chemists have realized that DNA can also be employed to build a variety of nanostructures and nanomachines," said Vallée-Belisle, who also holds the Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Bionanotechnology.

"Inspired by the ‘Lego-like’ properties of DNA, with building blocks that are typically 20,000 times smaller than a human hair, we have created a DNA-based fluorescent nanoantenna, that can help characterize the function of proteins," he said.

"Like a two-way radio that can both receive and transmit radio waves, the fluorescent nanoantenna receives light in one colour, or wavelength, and depending on the protein movement it senses, then transmits light back in another colour, which we can detect."

One of the main innovations of these nanoantennae is that the receiver part of the antenna is also employed to sense the molecular surface of the protein studied via molecular interaction.

One of the main advantages of using DNA to engineer these nanoantennas is that DNA chemistry is relatively simple and programmable,” said Scott Harroun, an UdeM doctoral student in chemistry and the study’s first author.

"The DNA-based nanoantennas can be synthesized with different lengths and flexibilities to optimize their function,”"he said. "One can easily attach a fluorescent molecule to the DNA, and then attach this fluorescent nanoantenna to a biological nanomachine, such as an enzyme.

"By carefully tuning the nanoantenna design, we have created five nanometer-long antenna that produces a distinct signal when the protein is performing its biological function."

Fluorescent nanoantennas open many exciting avenues in biochemistry and nanotechnology, the scientists believe.

"For example, we were able to detect, in real time and for the first time, the function of the enzyme alkaline phosphatase with a variety of biological molecules and drugs," said Harroun. "This enzyme has been implicated in many diseases, including various cancers and intestinal inflammation."

Added Dominic Lauzon, a co-author of the study doing his PhD in chemistry at UdeM: "In addition to helping us understand how natural nanomachines function or malfunction, consequently leading to disease, this new method can also help chemists identify promising new drugs as well as guide nanoengineers to develop improved nanomachines."

One main advance enabled by these nanoantennas is also their ease-of-use, the scientists said.

"Perhaps what we are most excited by is the realization that many labs around the world, equipped with a conventional spectrofluorometer, could readily employ these nanoantennas to study their favourite protein, such as to identify new drugs or to develop new nanotechnologies," said Vallée-Bélisle.