🔔 Who wants to live forever?

 Still wrapping my mind around the fact that in the past drugs have had to exist in nature (but could be spliced, multiplied, and reinserted, like insulin), but now, we can literally just write drugs like code from bottom (A, T, C, G) up.

Our children may live a long, long time https://t.co/EpFmMMfiJv— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) June 16, 2021 

Synthetic biology is increasingly becoming, at least part of, the solution to many of our present and future needs in medicine, food and energy production, remediation, manufacturing, and national security.

The Impossible Burger: A plant-based burger, or else it's a veggie burger, you bite into it and it bleeds. So where's the blood coming from?

So what Impossible did was they found the gene for hemoglobin (makes blood red) and they moved it into brewer's yeast, like you would use to make beer.

And then you brew it up except instead of beer coming out, hemo comes out. And then you add that back into a veggie burger and suddenly, surprise, surprise because blood's an important part of meat, it smells right, it tastes right, and now it's the Impossible Whopper at Burger King.

People don't realize it, but the magic of that product, a lot of that magic is actually due to the ability to program cells. And then you look and there's companies doing this with egg proteins, milk proteins.

Vegan cheese is like styrofoam that turns into sand when you touch it, it's a total disaster. Everyone admits is a disaster.

And the reason is, you need casein, which is like a protein and milk. It's what makes cheese stretch. There's no replacement for it. There's nothing in plants that does it. It's just a reality. And so you have these companies now making casein and suddenly you have this vegan ice cream and vegan cheeses that stretch and are creamy.

We're able to make these animal proteins without the animals. And this is huge, both environmental, animal welfare, religious reasons don't want to eat this stuff.

The other area you see a lot is in materials.

A number of companies working on leather bags without the cow, as another example, where you're seeing it replaced.

We have people working on fire remediations, PFAS, and these chemicals that are showing up all over the place. They're very difficult to degrade.

Well, the other thing that biology does in addition to making all kinds of stuff is it's the world's best recycling system. Leaves fall off the trees, they get chewed up by fungi. Half of biology is actually things to break things down.

We have a company called Allonia that's been working on breaking down those types of difficult-to-degrade pollutants, as another example.

Think of it this way... a computer is a programmable machine. You put different code in it, and one day it's streaming a video, and the next day it's doing electronic medical records. It's amazing because of its programmability, but it's very limited because at the end of the day, all it moves around is information.

The magic of cells in biology is it's programmable. You put code in and it runs it, but it doesn't move bits around, it moves atoms. So if you think of what's going to get disrupted in the era of synthetic biology, it's all the physical goods industries.

It's food, it's medicine, it's building materials, down the list, electronics. Those are all biotech industries they just don't realize it.

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