Cas Smith is the Director of Creative Marketing at Ginkgo Bioworks. He helps to make synthetic biology accessible to more people in a variety of industries. On this episode, Cas shares with Erum and Karl how synthetic biology is already making an impact on our world and also how Ginkgo plans to expand that footprint by informing and engaging other industries like pharmaceuticals and government. Cas also covers different ways that synthetic biology can help various sectors as well as what problem he’d tackle first if he was starting a synthetic biology startup.

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Topics: bioeconomy, biomanufacturing, Biotechnology, synthetic biology, entrepreneurship, biotech platform, platform technology, biotech ideas, creative communication, marketing, science education, science communication, New York Biotech, New Bio City, Genspace

DNA stores information. Ellen and the team at Aanika Biosciences are using a unique technique to label food with barcodes programmed into DNA fragments housed in spores that are sprayed on produce. Ellen also shares her love for biotech, science communication and why she started community biotech labs.

Grow Everything brings to life the bioeconomy when hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories from the field and interview leaders and influencers in the space.  Life is a powerful force and it can be engineered. What are we creating?

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Topics: synthetic biology, entrepreneurship, policy, community, education, biotech, life sciences, bioeconomy, biomanufacturing

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Biotech without Borders

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Topics: bioeconomy, biomanufacturing, Biotechnology, synthetic biology, entrepreneurship, community, education, biotech, life sciences, insurance, farming, agriculture, produce, barcodes

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Instead of making palm oil the extractive way of chopping down rainforests and creating monoculture forests of palm trees, Shara and the team at C16 Biosciences created a novel way to create palm oil and other fats and oils from unique yeast strains. Learn about why and how they created this platform in this episode. 

Grow Everything brings to life the bioeconomy when hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories from the field and interview leaders and influencers in the space.  Life is a powerful force and it can be engineered. What are we creating?

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Topics: synthetic biology, entrepreneurship, policy, community, education, biotech, life sciences, bioeconomy, biomanufacturing

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Topics: synthetic biology, entrepreneurship, policy, community, education, biotech, life sciences, bioeconomy, biomanufacturing, Biotechnology, synthetic biology, the biotech century, world economic forum

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Why biology, why now? How will it transform our world? How do we create policies and regulation to ensure we advance biotechnology responsibly and protect our shared biological futures.  In our first interview, we speak with Megan Palmer who leads Stanford’s Bio Policy and Leadership Initiatives in their Department of Bioengineering.

Grow Everything brings to life the bioeconomy when hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories from the field and interview leaders and influencers in the space.  Life is a powerful force and it can be engineered. What are we creating?

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Topics: synthetic biology, entrepreneurship, policy, community, education, biotech, life sciences, bioeconomy, biomanufacturing, Biotechnology, synthetic biology, the biotech century, world economic forum

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Grow Everything brings to life the bioeconomy when hosts karl schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories from the field and interview leaders and influencers in the space.  Life is a powerful force and it can be engineered. What will we create? In this episode, Karl and Erum introduce the podcast, why they made it and what to expect.  Learn more at www.messaginglab.com/groweverything Topics: synthetic biology, entrepreneurship, policy, community, education, biotech, life sciences

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Grow Everything brings to life the bioeconomy when hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories from the field and interview leaders and influencers in the space.  Life is a powerful force and it can be engineered. What will we create?

Learn more at www.messaginglab.com/groweverything

Topics: synthetic biology, entrepreneurship, policy, community, education, biotech, life sciences, bioeconomy, biomanufacturing