Synthetic biology is the process of creating products from cells instead of traditional methods such as agriculture, and it could be the key to solving a major problem in the pharmaceutical industry. Drug supplies cannot keep up with demand because many modern medicines rely on agriculture — which is costly, slow, and easily destroyed and restricted — for their base materials; ‘synbio’ can alleviate supply issues because they can produce these materials quickly and cheaply. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
