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by ginkgoo 15y ago
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology. Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building web apps and work on something that ma
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology. Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building soulless web apps and work on somethin
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology. Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building soulless web apps and work on somethin
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You can now design new organisms with mail-order synthetic DNA(blog.ginkgobioworks.com)
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I heard you like numbers. Stats on DNA synthesis speed(blog.ginkgobioworks.com)
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology Ginkgo BioWorks is an MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms to solve challenges across a range of industries from renewable fuels to pharmaceutical prod
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
About time this topic came up on HN. The reason this matters is that lots of really smart, driven engineers are being taught that the way to be successful is to make a buck on a quick flip of a consumer web app -- rather than making an imp
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
I'm not sure the "possibilities are endless". At best they are lowering transaction costs between ppl selling food and ppl buying food. Feels like there are bigger problems out there.
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
Do people really think working on problems like this is impactful? Guessing the guys running this are pretty smart engineers, bums me out that they are making "solving the office lunch problem" their big hack.
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
For our programmer slots you don't need prior experience engineering organisms. Ginkgo is a good place for solid engineers to learn to hack biology. The majority of the team came from non-biology backgrounds initially.
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
Boston, MA - Ginkgo BioWorks is a synthetic biology startup out of MIT that is offering programming internships to develop CAD tools and software to support our platform for genetic engineering of organisms for use in fuels, medicine, and f
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
Actually, most of the team came from other engineering backgrounds. Ginkgo is a great place for engineers to learn to hack biology.
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by ginkgoo 15y ago
Boston, MA - Ginkgo BioWorks is a synthetic biology startup out of MIT that is offering programming internships to develop CAD tools and software to support our platform for genetic engineering of organisms: http://ginkgobioworks.com/caree