Our Vision for Building Biological Radar in New Issue of CEP

Since we launched Ginkgo’s Biosecurity unit as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve grown a business that is building the future technology that will be used to defend the world from dangerous biology. I’m super proud that we’ve gathered some of the best minds in the world to help do that.

Part of the challenge in building this platform is that we all know we need to build more than what exists now, but we can’t do it without building big coalitions of people from across sectors. So it’s exciting to me to have our work highlighted in the mainstream media as well as in the academic literature!

For this reason, I wanted to share a paper featured on the cover of Chemical Engineering Progress by Casandra Philipson, our Head of Bioinformatics. The gist may seem simple but the task before us is great:

“Biological threats, whether natural or engineered, will continue to emerge at an accelerating pace. To keep up, a new approach to biomonitoring is needed”

I also want to particularly thank Swati Sureka for her thoughtful contributions to the draft, and Derek Bonvillain for his beautiful cover artwork for the latest issue — both managing to make an academic journal article readable and cool… not easy!

Click here for the article if you have access, and if you don’t, please get in touch for a PDF version.