About this deck
From cutting and pasting genes in 1973 to writing mRNA scripts that run inside your cells. A working tour of the platforms that turned living systems into engineerable substrate. Key sections include: BIOTECHNOLOGY Editing biology like software; Recombinant DNA: cut, paste, run.; A startup turns the lab trick into a company.; Human insulin, brewed in E. coli.; PCR: a Xerox machine for DNA.; Sequencing collapses 100,000× in cost.; One target. One molecule. One blockbuster.; CRISPR: programmable scissors with a GPS.; mRNA platforms: ship the recipe, not the protein.; Synthetic biology: bacteria as fabs..