And it is the classic synthetic aroma chemical, OK?

The state of the art is what we call myoelectric prostheses.

Then he put a video monitor in the monkey's cage that showed the monkey this prosthetic arm, and the monkey got fascinated.

The monkey recognized that whatever she did with her arm, this prosthetic arm would do.

At the time, the legs I presented were groundbreaking in prosthetics.

A prosthetic limb doesn't represent the need to replace loss anymore.

But with synthetic biology, we can actually imagine engineering this bacterium to produce something that gives us the quality, quantity and shape of material that we desire.

Then he put a video monitor in the monkey's cage that showed the monkey this prosthetic arm, and the monkey got fascinated.

We've doing it very carefully now for 20 years, from satellites, and it isn't going up.

She had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces, and she could feel different textures of sandpaper, different grits, ribbon cable, as it pushed on her reinnervated hand skin.

We did that by putting these artificial spines on crabs, as you see here, and then we tested them.

So this is a satellite photograph based on temperatures red being warm, blue being cold and we found there's a tremendous difference between the warm water samples and the cold water samples, in terms of abundant species.

I worked with a synthetic biologist, and I created a swallowable perfume, which is a cosmetic pill that you eat and the fragrance comes out through the skin's surface when you perspire.

So we're now making several dozen different constructs, because we can vary the cassettes and the genes that go into this artificial chromosome.

Within a short while, I think there's going to be a new field called Combinatorial Genomics, because with these new synthesis capabilities, these vast gene array repertoires and the homologous recombination, we think we can design a robot to make maybe a million different chromosomes a day.

We'd have a far better far better knowledge of what's happening on our planet environmentally than could be gathered with satellites and a handful of government sensor nets alone.

So at the time, it was my opportunity to put a call out to innovators outside the traditional medical prosthetic community to come bring their talent to the science and to the art of building legs.

But with synthetic biology, we can actually imagine engineering this bacterium to produce something that gives us the quality, quantity and shape of material that we desire.

I need to talk to you about synthetic materials like plastics, which require huge amounts of energy to create and, because of their disposal issues, are slowly poisoning our planet.

So at the time, it was my opportunity to put a call out to innovators outside the traditional medical prosthetic community to come bring their talent to the science and to the art of building legs.

So we think synthetic cells are going to have tremendous potential, not only for understanding the basis of biology but for hopefully environmental and society issues.

They're called body powered prostheses, which were invented just after the Civil War, refined in World War I and World War II.

The lake is one of the largest man made lakes in the world, and the hydroelectric power generating facilities at the dam provide electricity to much of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Today, I have over a dozen pair of prosthetic legs that various people have made for me, and with them I have different negotiations of the terrain under my feet, and I can change my height

They're called body powered prostheses, which were invented just after the Civil War, refined in World War I and World War Il.

I worked with a synthetic biologist, and I created a swallowable perfume, which is a cosmetic pill that you eat and the fragrance comes out through the skin's surface when you perspire.

We'd have a far better far better knowledge of what's happening on our planet environmentally than could be gathered with satellites and a handful of government sensor nets alone.

They say, if you measure the temperature of the atmosphere, it isn't going up it's not going up at all. We've doing it very carefully now for 20 years, from satellites, and it isn't going up.

Does industry get to create creatures who, in their milk, in their blood, and in their saliva and other bodily fluids, create the drugs and industrial molecules we want and then warehouse them as organic manufacturing machines?

It was a quite exciting experiment when we just took the synthetic piece of DNA, injected it in the bacteria and all of a sudden, that DNA started driving the production of the virus particles that turned around and then killed the bacteria.

And we're using you can see that I'm not really into this kind of stuff but we're using satellite imagery to look at the deforestation in the area.

For us at Cambridge, it's as varied as the El Niño oscillation, which affects weather and climate, to the assimilation of satellite data, to emissions from crops that produce biofuels, which is what I happen to study.

And we've had the opportunity to work with some very advanced arms that were funded by the U.S. military, using these prototypes, that had up to 10 different degrees of freedom including movable hands.

But before I do that, I need to talk to you about synthetic materials like plastics, which require huge amounts of energy to create and, because of their disposal issues, are slowly poisoning our planet.

It was a quite exciting experiment when we just took the synthetic piece of DNA, injected it in the bacteria and all of a sudden, that DNA started driving the production of the virus particles that turned around and then killed the bacteria.

And we've had the opportunity to work with some very advanced arms that were funded by the U.S. military, using these prototypes, that had up to 10 different degrees of freedom including movable hands.

She had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces, and she could feel different textures of sandpaper, different grits, ribbon cable, as it pushed on her reinnervated hand skin.

Today, I have over a dozen pair of prosthetic legs that various people have made for me, and with them I have different negotiations of the terrain under my feet, and I can change my height I have a variable of five different heights.

So this is a satellite photograph based on temperatures red being warm, blue being cold and we found there's a tremendous difference between the warm water samples and the cold water samples, in terms of abundant species.

Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next gen robotic arm.

Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs she's got a dozen amazing pairs and the superpowers they grant her speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height ... Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.

Within a short while, I think there's going to be a new field called Combinatorial Genomics, because with these new synthesis capabilities, these vast gene array repertoires and the homologous recombination, we think we can design a robot to make maybe a million different chromosomes a day.

For us at Cambridge, it's as varied as the El Niño oscillation, which affects weather and climate, to the assimilation of satellite data, to emissions from crops that produce biofuels, which is what I happen to study.

And eventually she was moving it and moving it, and eventually stopped moving her right arm and, staring at the screen, could move the prosthetic arm in the other room only with her brainwaves which means that monkey became the first primate in the history of the world to have three independent functional arms.