> Bio today is where information technology was 50 years ago: on the precipice of touching all of our lives. Bio has been touching all of our lives for a long

> Bio today is where information technology was 50 years ago: on the precipice of touching all of our lives. Bio has been touching all of our lives for a long time now, from vaccines to food to basic research yielding large advancements in medical understanding. What we are on the precipice of may be personalized or customized biochemistry, which is something we desperately need if we ever want to attack diseases like cancer, enable radical regenerative intervention, or tackle the effects of aging. On a side note, I feel that we should put a moratorium on the phrase "X is eating the world". Right now we're using it whenever something needs to be hyped and it's becoming quite cringy.