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Higher Animals with Michael Specter
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Ginkgo BioWorks: A 3000 Year Old Chinese Tree
A company called Ginkgo BioWorks went public in late 2021. The whole floor of the New York Stock Exchange was chanting DNA, DNA. Synthetic biology is not an ideal name for a discipline that makes things with biology. But it's hard to undo a name that exists and replace it.
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