Michael Le Page

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580 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

Michael Le Page’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So the idea with synthetic biology is to say, right, what we need, we need a cell where we understand everything.

We've sort of built it ourselves.

We understand everything.

We can change things and make it do exactly what we want because we understand the system.

I mean, that's a fair enough argument.

But I mean, if you look at Spudcell right now, I mean, it's very impressive.

But this is, you know, it's needing it's not anywhere near doing anything useful.

That's a very long way away.

And, you know, my suspicion is that you're going to have to get it to evolve a lot to really optimize it.

And then once it starts evolving, you're going to get some of those same problems back again.

Now, I put that to Kate Adama and what she said as well.

We're going to, you know, yes, we do need to evolve it, but we're going to check it mutation by mutation.

So make sure we understand each mutation as it happens.

Well, that's going to really slow.

I mean, it's going to make it really difficult to do things fast.

That's going to take if you're going to do mutation by mutation as it because, of course, it's small now.

But as you add in all these extra things that they wanted to do, then you can have all these extra layers of complexity and it's going to get bigger.

And if you go in mutation, one mutation at a time, that's going to be very slow.

So I'm happy.

I mean, I'm sort of maybe one day, but I think this is we're talking decades still before this does anything useful.

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