The community speaks
As part of our anniversary issue, we approached over 90 thought leaders to talk about the challenges facing the biotech sector and to outline some of its most exciting frontiers. Here’s a snapshot of what some of them had to say. Drew Endy, Stanford University: Languages are systems for communicating among humans (e.g., English) or between humans and non-human systems (e.g., C++). Biotechnology is begetting a new language for scaling communication between humans and living matter, broadly defined. Over time languages tend to become free-to-use or are abandoned and go extinct. Patents are great; they expire. Languages for programming life … Read more