Picture this: It’s the 19th century, and the world is measured in horsepower and steam engines. One century later, Ford revolutionizes manufacturing though the assembly line. By the time the year 2000 rolls in, the measure has switched to processing [...]
Every single one of us on this stage is touched by the challenges that we all face in life sciences. Which is why with IndieBio we aim to tackle all these really challenging and incredibly important issues not just [...]
The race towards cheaper, faster and better DNA synthesis continues. Today, next generation DNA synthesis company DNA Script announced a successful Series A round, raising 11 million euros (USD $13 million) from key industry partners, with Illumina Ventures at the [...]
I remember sitting in a classroom during a summer course on synthetic biology and questioning just how much of this was science fiction and how much was interesting research that would never make it out of Nature (the journal) and [...]
Like it or not, robots are already ingrained in our everyday life. Their presence is not obvious because they don’t exactly look like Asimov’s creations, since instead of pursuing humaniform robots, we seem to have unanimously chosen to pursue those [...]
With biotechnology’s ever-accelerating pace, comes the ever-increasing data overload that most of us have been both hoping for and dreading. The more the better, one would think, but information can become unmanageable impressively fast, enough for key data to [...]
