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>Gingko's success happens in (to me!!!!) good old microbiology, taking genes that already exist and putting them into bacteria My intuition suggests the same..
by mogadsheu 7y ago
>Gingko's success happens in (to me!!!!) good old microbiology, taking genes that already exist and putting them into bacteria
My intuition suggests the same... although it’s based on high school AP bio plus conversations/reading.
Any thoughts on cost efficiency? Is there some Gibbs free energy or other principle that would prevent it from ever being commercially feasible?
- a_bonobo 7y agoRegular biotech is already very cost-efficient, it's just a matter of putting the gene in, not breaking anything, and then optimising the hell out of the protocol (optimising temperature, pressure, nutrient mix etc. in your bioreactors). For synthetic biology, I have no idea why this is not commercially feasible. We probably oversimplify the cell's system too much, so that introducing a multi-level computer breaks things we don't know about? But I'm purely speculating.