MicroByre is domesticating organisms to become model species capable of addressing some of society’s most intractable problems – think climate change, to start. It’s doing so, in part, by breaking down barriers between disciplines and even industries, blending the brains, the skills and the technologies of geneticists and microbiologists and informaticians and chemists and bioengineers and data scientists – and let’s not forget the Lab Bots. 

If you want to get a sense of the challenges of creating biologics, ask Keith Wilson. He has spent his biopharma career trying to get large molecules to market in one fashion or another, as a scientist and in other roles in early research, drug discovery, target discovery and through clinical trials.