A paper co-authored by BBI Co-Director Thomas Gorochowski has been featured in a news story on the SynBioBeta website.
Breaking the Mold: Embracing Uncertainty for Enhanced Bio-Innovation reports on Michiel Stock and Thomas Gorochowski’s article: Open-endedness in synthetic biology: A route to continual innovation for biological design, which has been published in Science Advances.
Thomas tells SynBioBeta: “When we try to design a complex biological process, it’s often tempting to just tweak something that partially works rather than take the risk of trying something completely new. In this work, we highlight that in these situations, the best solutions often come from unexpected directions because we don’t always fully understand how everything works. With biology, there are lots of unknowns, and so we need a vast and diverse toolkit of building blocks to ensure we have the best chance of finding the solution we need.”
- Open-endedness in synthetic biology: a route to continual innovation for biological design
Michiel Stock & Thomas E. Gorochowski
Science Advances (2024), Vol 10, Issue 3, eadi3621
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi3621