we have bioengineers on the team who spend their careers on this kind of thing.e are ok being wrong sometimes, even most of the time. by the way, google gives you as much money as you want. bill: they don't give me. i would not put it in those terms. we all try to be rational, how much money can we reasonably invest and expect a good return. emily: and you don't have to funders, which is kind of a luxury. it saves about one third overtime, we can spend with the companies and other things. likenednce fundraising to bank robbing -- since then the market has changed. bill: i think it was an entrepreneurial unfriendly comment. it was something not nice to say. that was a unique situation. i think they learned something from it. the investment obviously did not work out, but they were onto something for a short time that burned brightly. at the same time, they were not dealing with sick patients. the kinds of chances we take and the entrepreneurs are willing to take do not and should not work on the life science side. you have to be careful. emily: the market is in th

>>reporter: now bioengineering professor is trying to learn if the muscles formula could help improveuman made glue used in the most delicate of surgery. helps to understand it's covered with tiny thread when it wants to attach itself it sticks out a foot to secrete pools of adhesive. pasting the thread to the rock. >> fascinating process where they start by secreting liquid protein and the protein harden rapidly kind of like an he pox poxy. >>reporter: why would this be suited for securing human issu issue? keep in mind our blood contains salt. as does salt water. the same environment muscles and their glue have evolved for. >> makes sense to actually learn from marine species how they attach to surfaces. >> this will help to glue the two pieces together. >>reporter: in the lab at the university of california, the team is synthesizesing version of the muscle glue testing the strength on everything from sausage case goes to chicken skin. >> this is able to help us tell the difference between the good seal and better seal and really strong one. >>reporter: first target cutting edge sur

i'm meeting with a bioengineer. >> i became more interested in what makes players better than othersmakes others great. >> and today dr. issa will test my performance to see how i stack up against the pros. i'll be going head to head with christian rivera, aka i will dominate. i know he's good but i've got 20 years on him. that's got to count for something. >> ready? >> ready. >> we're starting with hand/eye coordination. i'm trying to pop the white, yellow and blue bubbles but steer clear of the blue bubbles. i'm not doing very well. >> i thought i was doing much better. >> see what dom's got. yeah, he's crushing this. 1776. i'm in the 53rd percentile. that's pretty terrible. >> one of the best baseball batters, albert pujols, he was in the 66th percentile. >> what makes a pro athlete stand out? >> it's about the cognitive software you've downloaded to be able to recognize the play that's coming and on auto pilot execute the necessary response to that. >> an example of this is when pujols tries to hit a soft ball. you might think a world class baseball player would have no trouble h

and in terms of the mainstream and highly capitalized bioengineering world, how much are you encountering technicians, people who do the work in the labs and the scientists who are willing to engage in ethical terms and in terms of we make the world with the work we do, and this is one of those moments where it's super in our face, and it feels like it's not discussed, some of the fascination and the implication of science and technology is simply underdiscussed and the fascination overrides all the possibilities of stopping of why am i here in the planet and what the hell am i doing, so i kind of just want to start the discussion happening. i invite all three of you to respond however you like and i'm sure by then other people will jump in -- whoever wants to go first. mr. shanks: one of the things -- is this on? yeah. in my experience people don't like talking about human genetic modification. it freaks people out. now, there are some people that it's a minority, i think, there are some people who are for it, who, you know, i want to be green, i want to have horns, i want to do all kind