Andrew Hessel: Using Emerging Tech to Craft Our Biological Future

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Saul Kaplan and Andrew Hessel discuss what it's like to unleash the adjacent possible as it relates to cellular biology, entering into a whole new area of design and manufacturing as an entirely new paradigm in creating the things that humanity needs to grow and thrive. The future is now, and we are at the cusp of realizing incredible changes in the field of life science.

Andrew Hessel is a futurist and catalyst in biological technologies, helping industry, academics, and authorities better understand the rapid changes happening in life science. He is a Distinguished Researcher with Autodesk Inc. in their SF-based Life Sciences group, which is creating software tools for molecular and living systems. He is also the co-founder of Humane Genomics, which is developing virus-based therapies for cancer, starting with dogs.