Patterson and homebrew biologists like her may form the body of a nascent synbio movement, but the architects of that movement still come almost entirely from academe. The most visible booster of synthetic biology is probably Drew Endy, a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Young-looking, with slightly mussed sandy hair, Endy could easily be mistaken for a perpetual grad student. He coins hackerish jargon that sounds super-hip. If you listen carefully on the Stanford campus, maybe you’ll hear someone referring to the shifting of a gene from one life-form to another as “DNA bashing.”
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Reminded me of Tom and Doc B.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
