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Yeah look at research group websites at major research universities that are working in your area of interest. The students are usually listed on the lab website. They’d love to be…

"If you want to start a company working on a better way to build homes, gene editing, artificial general intelligence, a new education system, or carbon sequestration, you may actu…

hedonic treadmill is close to word you are looking for.

Agree the professor track is tough but a PhD is a great idea even if you don't want to be a professor. It's just a unique experience that both gets you deep in a specific area of s…

Getting a PhD was one of the best decisions I ever made. You have your whole life to go optimize for making $ if you want afterwards. At a top research school in the right lab you …

If you'd like to spin up on GMO debate / tech this series is the best source I've found: https://grist.org/series/panic-free-gmos/

Yes should be 400 million. 100 million from our last order plus 300 million in this new order.

The biggest technical problem in general for synthetic biology is predictive design. Most of the technology we are building is to enable massive numbers of designs to be tried in p…

I'm Jason Kelly, one of the Ginkgo co-founders -- happy to answer questions!

YC is the only credible threat to elite higher education that I've seen come out of Silicon Valley.

This is complete nonsense. Here's a decent debunking: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2016/01/31/g...

This sentence in pretty staggering: "... people who had nothing to do with the design and execution of the study but use another group’s data for their own ends ... or even use the…

This is what is going to make Echo the next big computing platform. The voice recognition just works. It's like being on the Enterprise.