Yes? But you also left off the rest of her bio: ", professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, and a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Science and Innovation Leadership for the 21st Century."
She is an accomplished academic scientist who is now putting her effort into a technology where her science portends value. And she's explaining that technology here.
The idea is actually a very strong idea with hints towards an even more interesting future. Bionengineering these pathways into an organism (even yourself) gets you a lot of significant benefits:
- dropping the reliance on petrochemical precursors for manufacturing
- a large number of biosimilar compounds for the cost of a few rounds of evolution
- manufacturing is constant across many different drugs and involves 3 ingredients: water, light & sugar
- manufacturing is much easier and can be transported "in house" eventually into smaller and smaller scales (think yogurt or a shot of espresso)
She is an accomplished academic scientist who is now putting her effort into a technology where her science portends value. And she's explaining that technology here.
The idea is actually a very strong idea with hints towards an even more interesting future. Bionengineering these pathways into an organism (even yourself) gets you a lot of significant benefits:
- dropping the reliance on petrochemical precursors for manufacturing
- a large number of biosimilar compounds for the cost of a few rounds of evolution
- manufacturing is constant across many different drugs and involves 3 ingredients: water, light & sugar
- manufacturing is much easier and can be transported "in house" eventually into smaller and smaller scales (think yogurt or a shot of espresso)
- etc.