Synthetic Biology

Time is running out. We need to stop global warming from heating the earth’s temperature by another 1.5 °C before it’s too late. We must do this no later than 2050, preferably sooner, and we’re already late to the party.

Race Against the Clock (RATC) is a call to our future leaders, i.e., today’s students, to take charge with synthetic biology/biological engineering, entrepreneurship, and storytelling for a sustainable, environmentally friendly future that feeds, heals, cleans, and fuels the world.

Built with Biology, Ginkgo Bioworks, and Schmidt Futures recognize that the future of our planet lies in the hands... Read more

Two more fantastic podcast series. Recently I listened to Built with Biology: Spaces , sponsored by SynBioBeta. In this interview Fiona Mischel, the host, interviewed Masaki Yamada and Kris Tyner. Masaki is a Product Manager and Kris is a Senior Processing Engineer at Culture Biosciences. Culture Biosciences is a very interesting company that Masaki and Kris described as a company that does bioprocessing in the cloud. When I first heard that description I was confused—bioprocessing could not possibly be simulated, could it? Well, it turns out that the wet experiments still happen, but rather than... Read more