Year: 2022

PREDICTING FUTURE UTILITY is very difficult. "In the long term, synthetic biology is likely to have as broad and pervasive a role in our society as the products of both the chemical and electronic revolutions." The lessons learned from the unexpected rise of the modern pharma industry from the work of nineteen century synthetic chemists discovering dyes from coal tar products, also apply to Synbio. Equally, nobody guessed that the Human Genome Project would disrupt the medical paradigm. " " http://lnkd.in/dqHXeRT View in LinkedIn

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. "In the coming decades, we are likely to see a revolution in biology akin to the revolution in chemistry that occurred in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The applications of synthetic biology will be highly varied, and progress and innovation is likely to come from unexpected areas. Biological molecules are self-assembling systems that can adapt to change, show robust homeostasis, and can self-repair." Future Synbio material may have some of these properties. " " http://lnkd.in/dqHXeRT View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO TO CHANGE OUR WORLD. "Synthetic biology looks poised to change the world in which we live in a manner that parallels the transformation brought about by synthetic chemistry a century ago. Within a few decades, products generated by synthetic biology could become a commonplace an element of our everyday lives."" " http://www.humansandnature.org/synthetic-biology--origin--scope--and-ethics-article-50.php View in LinkedIn

AD has become a dangerous venture for drug companies. Part of the reason for past failures is that the patient pool is heterogeneous. Any drug tested in such a pool will have a diluted statistical power. Aricept may be a good drug in a clean pool. The need to have a homogeneous patient pool will be solved by diagnostics. Secondly, florid AD is probably too late to rescue. The brain is simply too compromised. Going earlier to Mild Cognitive Impairment is intuitively more likely to succeed. FDA has opened that door. http://lnkd.in/dg77Em5 View in LinkedIn

BIOBASH INVITATION TO ALL: Dec 17, at 7 pm at Portal De L'Angel 36, off Placa de Catalunya in Barcelona. Speaker Dr Xavier Ferras, Dean of Vic Biz School. Come mix with fellow entrepreneurs in this monthly event with wine and tapas. COME JOIN THE MADNESS! View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE DRIVES ECONOMIES. "The bulk of economic growth - 87.5% according to Nobelist Robert Solow's (1957) initial estimates, stems from technological change: improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of industry."" " http://www.economics.rpi.edu/pl/economics-technological-change View in LinkedIn

MCKINSEY'S 12 DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: technological change drives the economy, and big-scale disruptive technology makes the greatest impact. "We estimate that, together, applications of the 12 technologies discussed in the report could have a potential economic impact between $14 trillion and $33 trillion a year in 2025."" " http://lnkd.in/UA77iV View in LinkedIn

MCKINSEY LIST OF 12 ECONOMIC HOTSPOTS IN FUTURE: mobile internet; automation of work knowledge; IoT; cloud tech; robotics; autonomous vehicles; next-gen genomics; energy storage; 3D printing; advanced materials; oil and gas recovery; renewable energy. http://lnkd.in/UA77iV View in LinkedIn

SPEED OF TECH CHANGE CHANGES RULES. "1. We Think in Linear Terms, but Technology Moves at an Exponential Pace. 2. Scale Advantages Have Diminished. 3. Business Models No Longer Last." We live in a world that constantly reinvents itself with fresh ideas. Smell the coffee! " " http://lnkd.in/d-QZYYM View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES WILL UBIQUITIZE. "Technology pioneer from Google, Ray Kurzweil, predicts that in the future, “all technologies will essentially become information technologies, including energy. So exponential rates of progress will increasingly become the norm." This first single, very muscular sentence bears a great deal of thinking about. Take the change in the life sciences. We are now coding life. We now view life as a programmable (information) entity. Deeply unpack this remarkable prediction. " " http://lnkd.in/d-QZYYM View in LinkedIn