Digital Biology
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Digital Biology is the digitization of biological activities for diagnostics and detection. Anything that has a frequency can be digitally recorded by recording the specific spectrum of frequencies of an agent. As digital files, any biological activity can be transmitted electronically, for example as a .wav file. Health and medical applications range from the detection of viruses, bioterrorism, to the digitization of pharmaceuticals.
In a conversation with Sputnik Observatory, the late biologist and digital biology advocate Jacques Benveniste explains:
The immediate goal is towards the diagnostic side, since I could put one of these boxes any place in the world—if there is a solar battery and a little modem with a satellite, you can send a biological agent to a central laboratory to analyze it. For example, I could very well take tests from this room, put it in a detector, send it to my lab in France, and within one hour they will tell me if there is that bug, or that bug, or that bug there. That is the real progress. In fact, because we are talking about that, I believe that we are going to offer this kind of possibility to people dealing with bioterrorism because that is the ultimate detection device. That will detect absolutely everything, not only bacteria but viruses, anything that has a frequency associated to it would be detected by this kind of device.
—Jacques Benveniste, Biologist, Immunologist, sptnk 0:17:22:11