Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions.

There is still a great deal of optimization of the design that needs to be done. Now, with the help of the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority, we will have equipment to make high quality titanium coatings that are thicker. If we get about 3 percent conversion with 360 nanometers, what we could get with 4 microns is an exciting question we soon hope to answer.

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.

There is still a great deal of optimization of the design that needs to be done.

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.