We’re Entering a Golden Age of Engineering Biology

Historically, the complexity and unpredictability of biology has meant most scientific progress in this field has come from slow and expensive trial-and-error experiments. This post explores three areas that are turning biology from trial-and-error into a precise engineering discipline and unlocking dramatic progress; deep learning on biological data, laboratory automation, and precision DNA editing.

Original text: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/were-entering-a-golden-age-of-engineering

Author(s): Joshua March and Kasia Gora

A podcast by BlueDot Impact.

Chapters

• 7:07 The vast complexity of biology
• 9:59 We’re at an inflection point in our ability to engineer biology
• 10:45 Deep Learning is now enabling truly predictive models of complex biological systems
• 14:06 Lab automation is enabling us to speed up biological data collection to build predictive models
• 16:29 We now have the ability to easily edit the DNA of plants and animals, not just simple organisms
• 18:48 Biology as an engineering discipline