Andreessen Horowitz July 22, 2020
For generations, the field of biology has been largely defined by its discoveries. Now, because many crucial aspects of biology have begun the transition from an empirical science to an engineering discipline, the pendulum is shifting from “What can we discover?” to “What can we solve?”. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in the global scientific community’s collective response to combat a global pandemic—pushing us even further into one of the most prolific periods in the world of bio in both scientific and commercial development we have ever seen.
As our engineering toolkit in bio expands to be more powerful than ever before, and the infrastructure to deliver, produce, and scale these solutions comes increasingly online, a whole new...