Synthetic Biology and the Cyclic Economy

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Synthetic biology is a new computing manufacturing platform. It's the full suite of possible applications both on the inputs and on the outputs to create the products that we want exactly. In 2000 there was an important paper published by by Michael Elowitz at Caltech which showed creation of a synthetic oscillator inside a E. coli cell. He produced glowing bacteria fluorescent bacteria that on this beautiful 20 minute time lapse you can see videos of it online made these fluorescent bacteria glow and shrink and glow and go dark and Glow and don't go dark. That was one of the first examples of synthetic biology was 20 years ago in California.

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Synthetic biology is a fascinating field that combines biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems. By manipulating and reprogramming the DNA of living organisms, scientists can create new functions and traits that do not occur naturally. It's like rewriting the instruction manual of life itself, similar to how we write computer code.

In this video, you'll hear from three leaders in the synthetic biology industry—Drew Endy, John Cumbers, and Jennifer Holmgren—who will expand our understanding and imagination of this exciting field.

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0:00 Intro 0:50 What is Synthetic Biology? 3:35 The Guests

7:45 DREW ENDY 11:00 Biological Building Blocks 14:15 Understanding the Cell 18:30 The Power of Wetware 22:30 Code and DNA 28:00 The Business Model 30:30 The Biological Revolution 37:00 Longevity 39:20 The Landscape of Possibility

51:00 JOHN CUMBERS 54:30 The Synthetic Biology Rabbit Hole 58:30 Fermentation 1:03:15 Scaling the Revolution 1:07:00 Programming Nature 1:11:45 SciFi Infrastructure 1:19:15 A Grand Vision 1:23:00 Hijacking Biology 1:26:30 A Beautiful Future

1:33:45 JENNIFER HOLMGREN 1:36:00 Building a Circular Economy 1:40:00 Lanzatech 1:44:30 The Renewable Ethylene Business 1:48:30 The Fermentation Revolution 1:51:40 Biological Utopia

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Drew Endy https://twitter.com/DrewEndy?s=20

John Cumbers https://twitter.com/johncumbers?s=20

Jennifer Holmgren https://twitter.com/TodaDogs?s=20

Lanzatech https://lanzatech.com/

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