One of the major technological advances presented in my
novel Leviticus is PreVentall. For those who have not yet read my
book, I suggest you read it. In
the meantime, PreVentall is an inoculation of millions of nanobots designed to
prolong life and promote health (and by ‘prolong’ I mean forever and by
‘promote’ I mean never get sick or injured are physically harmed), by inserting
a nanobot it a few million random cells.
The nanobots sequence the individual genome of the cell and compare it
with others to come up with the proper genome of the individual through
averaging. Once an individual’s
genome is sequenced, the nanobots multiply and occupy each and every cell in
the individual’s body and watch over cell replication and RNA and DNA
transcription and correct any errors.
No more cancer, no more illness, no more injury. Damaged cells are repaired, errant
cells are corrected and foreign bodies are property destroyed. Perfect health and undetermined
longevity.
While I did come up with the name PreVentall – I did not come up with the idea. Nanoscientists have discussed this
possibility for years. The
greatest hurdle - for this and much of nanotechnology – has been the ability to
manufacture a nano-sized robot.
Several years ago, scientists began experimenting with natural nanobots
– genetic material.
Now it seems that scientists have managed to inject strands
of DNA designed to carry drugs into cockroaches. The DNA strands are functionalized to unfold when they meets
certain proteins or to interact with each other at various times. Using the natural folding and unfolding
process of DNA strands – scientists have basically designed nano-computers to
perform various tasks. The initial
research was recently published in NatureNanotechnology and the scientists involved state that they will shortly be
able to inject cockroaches with nanocomputers with computing power to match the
Commodore 64.
The methods have not been attempted in mammals yet due to
the cockroaches advantage of lacking antibodies meant to destroy foreign bodies
– but the researches believe that any immuno-response activities in the human
body can be overcome within the next 5 years.
What does this mean?
It could mean that by 2019 scientists may be performing clinical trials
of nanoscience cancer treatments that delivery chemotherapy direct to (and
limited to only) cancer cells – sparing healthy cells the damage of current
chemotherapy methods. Add another
6 years – and perhaps by 2024 we’ll be offered the opportunity to achieve
perfect and everlasting health – PreVentall (or whatever name is attached).
What would this mean to us as humans? That, my readers, is answered fully in Leviticus and the two books to follow. Get your copy of Leviticus and join the conversation.
