We’re entering a golden age of engineering biology

As you all know, I am a techno-optimist. The current decade truly seems like a time of marvels, with major simultaneous advances in energy technology, AI, biotech, space, and a number of other fields. But whereas I’m pretty well-equipped to understand some of those technologies, the biotech industry often feels like a completely separate world. Thus, I rely more on experts in the field to tell me what’s going on there. Two such experts are Joshua March and Kasia Gora, founders of SCiFi Foods. Although their company does cultivated meat — which Josh wrote a Noahpinion guest post about in 2022 — they’re pretty knowledgeable about the state of the biotech industry in general. So when I was looking around for someone to write a guest post explaining why the 2020s are an exciting decade for biotech, they were a natural choice. I thought this post did a great job of summing up the importance of various disparate advances with one core concept: the transformation of biology from a scientific

As you all know, I am a techno-optimist. The current decade truly seems like a time of marvels, with major simultaneous advances in energy technology, AI, biotech, space, and a number of other fields. But whereas I’m pretty well-equipped to understand some of those technologies, the biotech industry often feels like a completely separate world. Thus, I rely more on experts in the field to tell me what’s going on there. Two such experts are Joshua March and Kasia Gora, founders of SCiFi Foods. Although their company does cultivated meat — which Josh wrote a Noahpinion guest post about in 2022 —