When we think about large, complex systems like search engines, large language models, and computation, we assume a centralized, top-down hierarchical controller ‘knows’ the whole system with massive amounts of stored knowledge to coordinate all the moving parts. But there are hard physical limits with centralized memory. If a system tries to calculate the perfect global state of millions of interacting variables all at once, the computational load becomes infinite, and the s

Living Foundries is an ongoing synthetic biology project at DARPA , involving participants in academia, which aims to create the framework for an on-demand shop for creating novel molecules. The end-goal is a foundry for on-demand novel molecule creation for applied materials, adhesives, coatings for aircraft, pharmaceuticals, and internal medicine. Its first 'customer' will be the Department of Defense, but the capabilities being brought to reality in this project may make t

Earlier in 2019, a more rapid and detailed analysis tool for gene editing experiments  was introduced-  CRISPresso2. CRIPSresso is a tool that will project accurate outcomes of potential gene edits in the context of research and experimentation. As tools like these continue to improve, the advances will cut down continually on research time for the public and private sector- gaining a more rapid stride in the direction of prolific gene editing.  At the same time these advan