[Hplusroadmap] Edge 237 - Drew Endy: Engineering Biology

[Jef Allbright]

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The only thing that hasn't been engineered are the living things,
ourselves. Again, what's the consequence of doing that at scale?
Biotechnology is 30 years old; it's a young adult. Most of the work is
still to come, but how do we actually do it? Let's not talk about it,
let's actually go do it, and then let's deal with the consequences in
terms of how this is going to change ourselves, how the biosecurity
framework needs to recognize that it's not going to be nation-state
driven work necessarily, how an ownership sharing and innovation
framework needs to be developed that moves beyond patent-based
intellectual property and recognizes that the information defining the
genetic material's going to be more important than the stuff itself
and so you might transition away from patents to copyright and so on
and so forth.

ENGINEERING BIOLOGY
A Talk with Drew Endy

EDGE VIDEO

DREW ENDY, is Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT,
where he is working to enable the design and construction of large
scale integrated biological systems, and to develop and improve
general methods for representing cellular behavior.