We’re Entering a Golden Age of Engineering Biology

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.

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