Andrew Hessel is a pioneer in synthetic biology, a futurist, microbiologist and geneticist, and inventor and entrepreneur. He is a proponent of open source biology and advocates that cells are living computers and DNA is a programming language. He has been advocating for writing DNA since shortly after the original Human Genome Project, and co-founded the Genome Project-write. Hessel is an expert in biological technologies and biosecurity, helping industry, academics, and authorities better understand the rapid changes in life science.
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