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Wagyu Beef, Grown in the Lab
Cell Crunch (Issue 2021.03.26)
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By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs — now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.
— John Muir
📰 Bioengineering in the News
Idea: Watermelons that grow on trees. Terrifying.
BIOTECH BATCH: Y Combinator has a new batch of startups. An article in Tech Crunch gives a nice overview for each of them. Tech Crunch. Link (A separate article takes a deeper dive on a specific startup in the batch; a company called Orbillion Bio is growing high-end meats — think wagyu, elk and lamb — in the lab.)
WEARABLE SENSORS: Jim Collins talks “living materials” that can diagnose diseases and sense microbes in an article for the National Institutes of Health’s biweekly newsletter. NIH Record. Link
BIOTECH’S NEW DEAL: Biotechnology can help usher in a “Green New Deal,” Isaac Larkin explained in a detailed report last year. Larkin highlights how synthetic biology is improving…
