The post-COVID plan for more resilient, sustainable, and equitable bioeconomies everywhere As biology ravages the global economy, we have a once-in-a-lifetime, trillion-dollar opportunity to help shape how biology will...
The Eight Little Mice That Could Be The Key To Ending The Pandemic
Although these are uncertain times, one thing I am certain of is that with synthetic biology and life sciences companies stepping in to help from all around the world, scientists like Liusong Yin may soon defeat COVID-19.
A Coronavirus Vaccine In Six Days? This Company Is Fast-Tracking And Automating Vaccine Development With The World’s First Fully Automated Gene Synthesis Platform
One of the pioneers of synthetic biology can design vaccines against coronavirus and other pathogens in about an hour. Now, labs can put his methods to work on their own benchtops.
Five Things Big Pharma—And Its Investors—Could Learn From Synthetic Biology
Drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, despite many advances in technology and biology. Will the coronavirus pandemic shake pharma out of its inertia? Here are five learnings from synthetic biology R&D that just might change the game in pharma.
Preventing Another Pandemic Might Be As Simple As Trying Alternative Meat
Extreme conditions at wet markets and very large farms could lead to the spread of human pathogens like coronavirus. Advances in fermentation biology now enable us to make food that is more nutritious, far more sustainable, better tasting, and with almost limitless variety, compared to conventional farming.
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Five Things Big Pharma—And Its Investors—Could Learn From Synthetic Biology
We have a love hate relationship with pharma. We hate them for taking our money, and now we pray to them to cure COVID. Depending who you ask, it costs a pharma company $1 billion to $4 billion and 10-15 years to bring...
Apple Founder Zoom-Bombs Meeting To Thank COVID-19 Scientists
Apple devices don’t get viruses — but Apple founders apparently do. In December 2019, Steve Wozniak and his wife Janet took a cruise through Southeast Asia. They returned to their home in California in early January...
