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Synthego is a company automating and scaling genome engineering. Founded in 2012 by the Dabrowski brothers who were heavily influenced by SpaceX’s model of automation and rapid iteration, the company sought to increase access to reproducible CRISPR gene editing technology. In life sciences, many tasks are arduous and hard to scale. Ideally, every experiment could be automated enabling cloud biology and the ability to produce biological products from the screen of a computer. However, given that many biological experiments are bespoke, Synthego chose to focus on automating one particular task: CRISPR gene editing. Instead of focusing on automating every task, the lesson of Synthego’s success is to identify the most valuable experiments and automate just one:
