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A new breed of scientist, with brains of silicon

05-Jul-2017

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Robots use sound waves to create droplets a thousand times smaller than one a human can transfer.

But they also plan the experiments - interpreting data and generating hypotheses.

Zymergen tunes industrial microbes that produce ingredients for biofuels, plastics, or drugs.

This is already a $160-billion-per-year sector.

Can run a thousand experiments per week compared to a typical human's 10 per month.

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Aaron Kimball

Chief Technical Officer at Zymergen

Joshua Hoffman

Co-Founder and CEO at Zymergen.

Zymergen

Science and material innovation company.

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Laboratory Automation