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If Software Is Eating The World, Biology Is Going To Rebuild It: Zymergen CEO Josh Hoffman On The Coming Bioeconomy

In their 2019 book “The Making of a Democratic Economy,” Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard pose a provocative question: Why not use the U.S. Federal Reserve System to buy up all the nation’s oil companies and close them...

From WTF to WFH: Building a digital backbone for faster, cheaper, better science in a decentralized world

This Synthetic Biology Company Is On The Cusp Of Using Live, Engineered Bacteria As A Cancer Drug

Injecting mice with engineered, live bacteria has been shown to shrink cancer tumors. With trials underway to bring this immunotherapy solution to the clinic, Synlogic is paving the way for synthetic biology and living...

New McKinsey Report Sees A $4 Trillion Gold Rush In This One Hot Sector. Who’s Selling Picks And Shovels?

Mike Kamdar, The Future Of DNA Writing, And The Business Of Biology

The Eight Little Mice That Could Be The Key To Ending The Pandemic

Of the 4.2 million COVID-19 case in the world, 1.3 million are in the US, the highest of any country. And the US death toll just passed 83,000, about one-third of the world’s fatalities from the virus. In China, where...

A Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate In Six Days? This Company Is Fast-Tracking Vaccine Development With The First Fully Automated Gene Synthesis Platform

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...

Preventing Another Pandemic Might Be As Simple As Trying Alternative Meat

The New Diagnostics Marketplace In A Post-COVID-19 World

Eric Schmidt’s Five Insights About Navigating Coronavirus That Every Business Leader Needs To Hear Now

The United States is not acting aggressively enough to put the coronavirus behind us. That was my takeaway from an exclusive conversation with Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google. Mr. Schmidt graciously took the time to...

It’s Time To Build…With Biology

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...