In recent months, Heinz captured attention outside the synthetic biology community with his bold ideas for designing life. “Everything that’s alive we want to rewrite,” Heinz told TechRepublic last year. “Everything that’s alive can be made better and more useful to humankind, including human cells. Plants can be made to take out much more carbon out of the atmosphere. We can make humans that are born without disease that can live much longer. We can make humans that can interface directly with computers by growing interfaces into the brain.”

In 2015 Austen Heinz died at 31 of suicide. This synthetic biology engineer also worked at Duke University on their iGEM team.

This guy is no small potatoes in genius and if your talking genetically modified super soldiers…this guy had the technology to to it. Just think of one aspect of his technology "humans that can interface directly with computers by growing interfaces into the brain.”

Remember this guy from Syria (video)