How Synthetic Biology will Grow the Future - Inside Ginkgo Bioworks (literally)

2022-07-16に共有
What if we could create any protein, any biological structure that we want. And, for it to be biodegradable, sustainable, and safe for use? Well, that is the ultimate mission of Ginkgo Bioworks, a biotech company founded in 2008 by scientists at MIT, and their using Biology to achieve it.

How, you may ask? Well, by genetically engineering living organisms, like bacteria, yeast and mammalian cell lines to express proteins or genes of interest, testing and selecting the best ones, and then growing loads of it so that the desired product can be extracted. In other words - synthetic biology. These products grown by living organisms can then be used for industrial, pharmaceutical purposes, as well as food production and fragrances. I recently travelled to Boston and was able to have a little tour around Ginkgo’s building. I then later spoke with Sneha, a lead organism engineer at Ginkgo to hear about what they get up to and how they’re achieving it.

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コメント (21)
  • I prefer your videos with no music. Thanks for educating people on synth bio! Jealous you could tour there.
  • The info conveyed is way above my head, but I have a gut feeling that they are on the verge of greatness. Keep it up!
  • Another great video! Thank you for presenting us, the general public, with insights into companies and research teams' work. This helps demystify the space, inspire people to look into it, perhaps even study biology as it is seen as a multifaceted and viable career path and the interviews put a human face on a sector otherwise remote and incomprehensible. The way of presentation is also fresh and delivered with intention as you usually make the video as soon as you discover something and study it out of genuine interest and curiosity. Excellent work 👏
  • Another amazing video 🙌 the polarized navigation mechanisms of cellular environments video was a great video too
  • You just gained a new follower. Thanks to breakdown videos like this one. Keep up the good work!
  • @miaaiyana
    This is a great intro to Ginkgo, really interested in seeing how far they go. Thank you for the video.
  • Awesome video. Something we should care about. Future great company!
  • Great video! Really interesting process, and to use the data from "failed" attempts in order to increase efficiency!
  • They tried to do this with collagen back in 2005 in a paper titled Recombinant microbial systems for the production of human collagen and gelatin, seemed to work well but never saw any vegan collagen on the market.
  • Amyris is similar except they scale the product and perform the downstream process themselves. Ginkgo works on more of a royalty basis by supplying only the strain with the expectation the customer will scale and process.
  • I own stocks in synthetic biology. Glad you’re talking about it.
  • @yguy6885
    Hey we love your video, lmk if you want to talk to the Nyoka Design Labs team too!
  • My only problem with dna is the ceo pay and sbc is so high it prevents profitability
  • They gave me a tour as well, which was very nice of them. The major issue is cost. Consider the Human Genome Project. It cost $3 billion or so to sequence the first human genome. Now if someone reduced that cost by 99.9%, that's still a $3 million genome. Fantastic science project but of little practical use. It's the same with the other products they want to make. The cost has to come down to market prices or below (or otherwise offer a compelling feature), or it's just a cool science project.
  • Hi, could you review novos lab in one of your videos? They offer an all in one aging powder for different parts