Engineering Tomorrow: DARPA’s Push into the Frontier of Synthetic Biology

DARPA 进军合成生物学前沿

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美国国防高级研究计划局 (DARPA)

来源地址：

https://www.synbiobeta.com/read/engineering-tomorrow-darpas-push-into-the-frontier-of-synthetic-biology

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马铃薯基因组设计育种

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政策法规

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英语

原文发布日期：

2025-02-04

摘要：

DARPA aims to tackle precisely these scaling nightmares by infusing them with fresh tools. Picture an AI-powered design-build-test cycle that runs round the clock, generating tens of thousands of experimental variants in days. Such an approach demands custom-built platforms for lab automation, capable of operating at volumes and speeds beyond what any typical bench scientist can do. Koeris insists that the future of SynBio depends on different defaults for experimental volumes, frequencies, and data capture. Instead of shaping everything around a human with a pipette, we can build microfluidic or robotic systems that revolve around the optimum scale for the experiment. He wants to eliminate the “little weeds” that often trap researchers when they try to interpret gene expression networks or cellular behaviors one micro-liter at a time. A neural network, on the other hand, doesn’t bat an eyelid at millions of data points.