If we were to describe today's society to our ancestors, what would they think? Imagine seeing the first car, airplane or plastic in your lifetime and the growing sense of awe of what's to come.
What has our generation achieved?
We want to say that our bodies stay younger longer, that people rarely get sick, cures of immediate and plentiful, food is cheap and nutritious.
In reality, much of our food and fuel come from metal cylinders and glowing orbs, with simple and widely available inputs. Where microbes used to bring painful infections, now they are used to produce vital compounds. Viruses used to deliver death, and now they provide enhancements.
We destroy our enemies by making them our allies, turning these threats into friends. Instead of killing forests and drenching the land with toxins for agriculture, we give the soil back to nature, we source clean energy directly from the sun and pull clean drinkable water straight out of thin air.
Machines have given us more time for leisure, socializing, and enjoyment of the natural world. We are on the verge of unprecedented discoveries in physics, mathematics, and consciousness.
How do we make this dream a reality? The answer is biotechnology.
We are a tool using species - levers that extend our capacity. Biotechnology is the greatest tool yet discovered - it will be the key to our survival here on Earth, and key to our transformation into a spacefaring civilization. We seek better control over our environments and ourselves - biotechnology is the next paradigm in humanity's control over matter and information.
We are a tool using species - levers that extend our capacity. Biotechnology is the greatest tool yet discovered - it will be the key to our survival here on Earth, and key to our transformation into a spacefaring civilization. We seek better control over our environments and ourselves - biotechnology is the next paradigm in humanity's control over matter and information.
From mathematics, to physics, to chemistry, and now to biology.
By studying mature, we have the benefit of billions of years of trial and error, of evolution in all its forms, with its fundamental underlying code and processes. As we grow to understand it, we are then able to control it, build with it, leverage it, to transform what it is to be living, what it is to be human.
How do we accomplish this transformation?
By improving our tools and investing in the fundamental technology that matters. We take the best pieces from industry and laboratory, and optimize for scientific and social progress.
We train artist-scientists that live lives of inspiration.
We create more places where people have the freedom and support to work on things that better themselves and society.
Our vision is to become the "Bell Labs of Biology," which we are convinced is the next frontier of innovation, and to Terraform Mars, which is the next frontier for humankind.
