Drew Endy
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I think of it as whittling or sculpting a block of marble.
You're removing everything that's not needed.
When Kate's talking about building a cell from scratch, we are not subject to that constraint because she gets to choose every block of DNA that goes into that system.
That's the bottom-up, exactly.
The way I think about it metaphorically is I imagine we're all part of this giant world called lineage land, right?
And if we leave that continent or world, go to a new world, you know, we just get to build new things.
And it's a very subtle mental shift.
This is not something that's decades into the future.
This is something that's a very active field making progress in real time.
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