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The brave new world of protein structures and biofacturing

07/30/202111/11/2021 / scitechkevin / Leave a comment

DeepMind has given us the 3-D structures of all human proteins. What does it mean for biofacturing?

Does a billionaire space race really help humankind?

07/20/202111/11/2021 / scitechkevin

A handful of tourists are taking joy rides to space, but humanity’s true prospects for thriving on- and off-planet depend on unlocking the microbial factories all around us.

Let’s not call it AI

04/06/202111/10/2021 / scitechkevin

Vytas SunSpiral thinks the field of artificial intelligence is kind of cursed. Not because it can’t solve big problems across many domains — it’s already done that — but because of its name.

The Drug Supply Chain Is Broken. A New Breakthrough Paves The Way For On-Demand Plant-Based Medicines.

09/05/202011/11/2021 / scitechkevin

Christina Smolke and her lab report a breakthrough in making plant-based medicines that lays the foundation for a flexible, on-demand drug supply chain to replace our current fragmented and slow-moving one. The solution: use yeast instead of plants.

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

05/12/202011/11/2021 / scitechkevin

The former CEO of Google thinks we need to act faster on coronavirus, and that the companies to transform themselves now are going to win.

The great digital shift: Where synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, and biopharma combine

03/10/202011/11/2021 / scitechkevin

A new partnership between Riffyn and Novozymes is a great example of how lab automation, data processing, and biology and coming together to transform our digital health future.

How The Cloud Can Solve Life Science’s Big Data Problem

12/26/201911/11/2021 / scitechkevin

Small startups and big companies alike are recognizing that modern biotech R&D is as much a data problem as a science problem. Cloud technologies offer a way to bring together massive amounts of complex data to improve the way we feed, fuel, heal, and build our world with biology.

How Neural Nets Will Personalize Medicine: Meet The Startup That’s Changing How We Find New Drugs

11/01/201911/11/2021 / scitechkevin

Finding new medicines is like finding a needle in a haystack. By linking a powerful computational approach to advances in chemical manufacturing, this company is making piles of needles.

The best mistake I ever made

01/18/201711/11/2021 / scitechkevin

As the synthetic biology community began to take shape, I took the toughest job I could ever love — and found my passion.

Synthetic biologists: How we organize

11/01/201311/11/2021 / scitechkevin

This 2013 Nature op/ed explores a big-tent approach to organizing a national synthetic biology strategy in the U.S.

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