Bits&Bio Update 05/28
This update covers about 5 of the last 7 days. I spent a bulk of my time looking at the timeline of the field’s development and what people’s hopes are for the future roadmap for biotechnology. I also spent a few days writing up some plans on how a company could be designed to do iPOP on a really large scale while staying open-source or at least transparent (more on this to come). This also involved prepping for a short meeting with a member of the VC community I met last year, and some of my close friends with a bit more entrepreneurial experience.
Link to my notebook entries here, and a bibliography of the reading I did below. Note that not all of my reading of these (especially the myriad research papers) was done equally as evidenced by the wildly varying space each paper takes up in my notebook.
Follow up Reading to Learnings from Last Week
Five hard truths for synthetic biology
The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020
Synthetic biology 2020–2030: six commercially-available products that are changing our world
Computational planning of the synthesis of complex natural products
Accurate design of co-assembling multi-component protein nanomaterials
Cell-free systems for accelerating glycoprotein expression and biomanufacturing
Cell-free biosensors for biomedical applications
Lab Engineering diagnostics environments to be implanted into our body
Quantified Self
The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery
What killed the quantified self movement?
The Evolution of the Quantified Self
Various related MIT Tech Review Articles here
Sociology PhD’s thesis on dynamics of this market
Psychology of self-improvement
Pending Reading
Microbiome engineering: Current applications and its future
Building a global alliance of biofoundries
Solar energy harvesting in the epicuticle of the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis)
